Breakthrough bloodstream infections in critically ill non-neutropenic patients: higher incidence and better survival than non-breakthrough infections.
Conclusion. Breakthrough BSIs were common among critically ill non-neutropenic patients and these patients were associated with better survival because they were de facto receiving appropriate antibiotics.
PMID: 31436523 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Medical Microbiology - Category: Microbiology Authors: Papadimitriou-Olivgeris M, Kolonitsiou F, Solomou A, Karamouzos V, Anastassiou ED, Christofidou M, Spiliopoulou I, Fligou F, Marangos M Tags: J Med Microbiol Source Type: research
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