bacteremia
bacteraemia BrE

In the present study, the most common source of bacteremia was pneumonia.

This form of bacteremia almost never causes problems in normal individuals.

Bacteremia can be associated with these infections, but is not typical.

The same pattern is observed for both pneumonia and bacteremia.

Bacteremia among children admitted to a rural hospital in Kenya.

At four hours, only one of the three mice showed a significant bacteremia in any sample tested.

Bacteremia is the presence of viable bacteria in the blood stream.

It is similar to bacteremia, a condition where bacteria enter the bloodstream.

Basically, the younger the child and the higher the fever, the higher the chance of bacteremia.

There is no way to tell for sure by looking at a feverish child whether the child indeed has bacteremia.

Infections may also spread to the bloodstream (bacteremia) and become life-threatening.

A resurgence in bacteremia due to anaerobic bacteria was observed recently.

Bacterial infection of the blood is bacteremia or sepsis.

Bacteremia, as noted above, frequently elicits a vigorous immune system response.

The mortality rate can be nearly 100% for persons with alcoholism and bacteremia.

Treating patients who have Shigella bacteremia is less well defined.

For bacteremia studies surviving animals were euthanized at the times stated.

Bacteria in the bloodstream (bacteremia) or throughout the body (septicemia).

The overall case-fatality rate for children with gram-negative bacteremia was 43%.

Gram-negative bacillary bacteremia in human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected children.

If untreated, a bacterial infection can spread to the bloodstream, a condition called bacteremia.

Blood cultures must be repeated at intervals to determine if persistent - rather than transient - bacteremia is present.

Bacteremia can be quite serious, depending on the particular bacteria involved, and it can lead to all sorts of complications.

Mortality related to C.tertium bacteremia treated appropriately appears to be quite low.

This results in an increase in predisposition to bacteremia (bacteria in the blood).

It known to infect open wounds in humans and may also cause bacteraemia or urinary tract infections.

In infants it can cause bacteraemia, meningitis and necrotising enterocolitis.

The immunocompromised patient is at special risk for developing severe diseases, especially catheter-related infection with bacteraemia.

Bacteremia (also bacteraemia or bacteræmia) is the presence of bacteria in the blood.

The term improperly mixes components of bacteraemia and sepsis, and has been abandoned as a concept.

The majority of Cronobacter cases occur in adults, most often bacteraemia and have not been studied in detail.

One source of infectious organisms is bacteraemia, the presence of bacteria in the blood of slaughtered animals.

The hospital has been MRSA bacteraemia free since 11 July 2011.

The transient remission was not due to chemotherapy given 7 months before, without response, and coincided with pneumonia and S epidermidis bacteraemia.

Some of these patients had acute tubular necrosis, which may be related to shock, bacteraemia hypovolaemia and drug nephrotoxicity.

With appropriate antibiotics, the mortality rate is about 10% for uncomplicated cases but up to 80% for cases with bacteraemia or severe sepsis.

For S. aureus bacteraemia or right-sided endocarditis, the approved dose is 6 mg/kg given intravenously once daily.

Most infections result in bacteraemia in patients that are extremely sick or peritonitis in individuals that undergo ambulatory peritoneal dialysis consistently.

Rare nowadays but include spread of infection to other lung segments, bronchiectasis, empyema, and bacteraemia with metastatic infection such as brain abscess.

Severe presumed bacterial infections (e.g. pneumonia, empyema, meningitis, bacteraemia, pyomyositis, bone or joint infection)

It is best known as a cause of septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, spondylodiscitis, bacteraemia, and endocarditis, and less frequently lower respiratory tract infections and meningitis.

Mild and transient disseminated intravascular coagulopathy has been described, and transient bacteraemia occurs in 5-8% of patients during upper gastrointestinal endoscopy.

An official medical bulletin said Enrile died from complications arising from virulent viral infection, or "multiple organ failure due to septic shock and streptococcal pneumonic bacteraemia."

Given the low life expectancy in the country at just 54 years, with diseases such as typhus, typhoid, malaria and bacteraemia, the centre has a highly important task in improving the country's health.

Ejstrud P, Kristensen B, Hansen JB, et al.: Risk and patterns of bacteraemia after splenectomy: a population-based study.

Reported infections include skin and soft-tissue abscesses with associated osteomyelitis, bacteraemia, endocarditis, keratitis, lymphadenitis, peritonitis, post-surgical infections, pulmonary infections and disseminated disease.

The trust has not had a case of MRSA Bacteraemia or C. difficle for more than five years which makes it one of the best performing trusts in the UK.

Daptomycin has been shown to be not inferior to standard therapies (nafcillin, oxacillin, flucloxacillin or vancomycin) in the treatment of bacteraemia and right-sided endocarditis caused by Staphylococcus aureus.

Prevnar is the first and only pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for infants and children which protects against pneumococcal disease like meningitis, bacterial pneumonia, septicaemia and bacteraemia (bacteria in the blood.)