2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjid.2012.10.022
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Frequency of microorganisms isolated in patients with bacteremia in intensive care units in Colombia and their resistance profiles

Abstract: There has been a change in the frequency of species being isolated with a higher frequency of enterobacteriaceae compared to Gram-positive microorganisms, in general with a high resistance rate.

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“…S. aureus is the most significant species within this genus, termed as coagulase-positive- Staphylococcus (CPS) by virtue of its versatility as a pathogen in humans and animals in addition to its being one of the causes of food intoxication (Jørgensen et al, 2005; Cunha, 2009). Other Staphylococcus species, collectively termed coagulase-negative-staphylococci (CNS), have gained importance as they have been implicated to be responsible for a variety of opportunistic infections in humans and animals (Vuong and Otto, 2002), their association with nosocomial infections in neonatal intensive care units and food poisoning in spite of the fact that, they are also not classical food poisoning bacteria (Cortes et al, 2013; Becker et al, 2014; Tong et al, 2015) as they are less pathogenic than S. aureus possessing a smaller array of virulence factors (Becker et al, 2014). Due to the ubiquity of many of the species within this group, their clinical significance has traditionally been dismissed, and when isolated from clinical specimens, the bacteria have merely been regarded as contaminants (Becker et al, 2014).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…S. aureus is the most significant species within this genus, termed as coagulase-positive- Staphylococcus (CPS) by virtue of its versatility as a pathogen in humans and animals in addition to its being one of the causes of food intoxication (Jørgensen et al, 2005; Cunha, 2009). Other Staphylococcus species, collectively termed coagulase-negative-staphylococci (CNS), have gained importance as they have been implicated to be responsible for a variety of opportunistic infections in humans and animals (Vuong and Otto, 2002), their association with nosocomial infections in neonatal intensive care units and food poisoning in spite of the fact that, they are also not classical food poisoning bacteria (Cortes et al, 2013; Becker et al, 2014; Tong et al, 2015) as they are less pathogenic than S. aureus possessing a smaller array of virulence factors (Becker et al, 2014). Due to the ubiquity of many of the species within this group, their clinical significance has traditionally been dismissed, and when isolated from clinical specimens, the bacteria have merely been regarded as contaminants (Becker et al, 2014).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As reported in many epidemiological studies, P. aeruginosa clinical isolates are resistant to an increasingly wide variety of antibiotics, including "fourth-generation" cephalosporins. High levels of ␤-lactam resistance have been reported in the United States (6), Europe (7), and South America (8,9). In many cases, only colistin, and to some extent amikacin, still exhibits good activity against these multidrug-resistant P. aeruginosa infections (4).…”
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“…We observed a predominance of infections classified as communityacquired among patients with methicillin-sensitive S. aureus (13 MRSA vs. 36 MSSA). Although the origin of the bacteremia has been associated with the methicillin resistance level where communityacquired isolations are predominantly sensitive to methicillin (14), the multivariate analysis did not find this to be a risk factor for the presence of MRSA, despite its bivariate association with hospital-acquired infection. We did not perform the molecular definition of the type of isolations and their relationships with community-acquired infection in the present investigation.…”
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confidence: 75%
“…In spite of a decreasing trend in MRSA, both mortality as well as negative outcomes for the health system continue to be of concern (14). The early identification of patients with MRSA bacteremia and interventions to prevent risk factors related to its emergence can contribute to mitigating the phenomenon.…”
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