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A 5-Year Epidemiological Study of Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections in a Neurosurgery Department

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Parmenion P. Tsitsopoulos ,
Elias Iosifidis ,
Charalampos Antachopoulos ,
Maria Tsivitanidou ,
Ioannis Anagnostopoulos ,
Emmanuel Roilides  and
Philippos D. Tsitsopoulos
Parmenion P. Tsitsopoulos
Affiliation:
Second Department of Neurosurgery, Hippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
Elias Iosifidis
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases Unit, Third Department of Pediatrics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
Charalampos Antachopoulos
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases Unit, Third Department of Pediatrics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
Maria Tsivitanidou
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, Hippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
Ioannis Anagnostopoulos
Affiliation:
Second Department of Neurosurgery, Hippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
Emmanuel Roilides*
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases Unit, Third Department of Pediatrics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
Philippos D. Tsitsopoulos
Affiliation:
Second Department of Neurosurgery, Hippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
*
Third Department of Pediatrics, Hippokration Hospital, Konstantinoupoleos 49, GR54642 Thessaloniki, Greece (roilides@med.auth.gr)
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Abstract

The characteristics of nosocomial bloodstream infections (BSIs) in a neurosurgical department were studied over a 5-year period. The rate of nosocomial BSI was 3.0%. Gram-negative bacteria were the most commonly isolated pathogens (65.9% of isolates). For all the pathogens isolated, the rate of resistance to commonly used antimicrobial agents was high. Of the 101 patients with nosocomial BSI, 50 (49.5%) died during their stay at the Department of Neurosurgery. At the same time, overall mortality rate among neurosurgical inpatients without nosocomial BSI was 5.4% (ie, 175 of 3,216 patients died).

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , April 2010 , pp. 414 - 417
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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