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Independent Prognostic Factors for Fatality in Patients With Urinary Tract Infection Caused by Serratia marcescens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jien-Wei Liu ,
Yu-Mai Hsu  and
Yen-Fen Huang
Jien-Wei Liu*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, and the Committee of Hospital Infection Control, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center, and Chang Gung University, Taiwan
Yu-Mai Hsu
Affiliation:
Committee of Hospital Infection Control, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center, Taiwan, Republic of China
Yen-Fen Huang
Affiliation:
Committee of Hospital Infection Control, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center, Taiwan, Republic of China
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center, Taiwan, No. 123, Ta Pei Road, Niao Sung Hsiang, Kaohsiung Hsien, Taiwan 833, Republic of China
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Abstract

In a retrospective study of 329 cases of nosocomial urinary tract infection caused by Serratia marcescens, 16 (4.9%) were fatal. Female gender (OR, 3.9; CI95, 1.3-11.7; P = .014) and secondary S. marcescens bacteremia (OR, 6.5; CI95, 1.5-28.6; P = .013) were independent prognostic factors for fatality.

Type
Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , January 2004 , pp. 80 - 82
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2004

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