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Abstract
We investigated the clinical usefulness of time to blood culture positivity (TTP) of follow-up positive blood cultures (FUPBC) in patients with persistent Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB). Of the patients who did not have resolution of SAB after primary therapeutic intervention (PTI), patients who had decreases in TTP of FUPBC after PTI more frequently experienced 30-day mortality or secondary foci of infection than those who did not have decrease in TTP (83.3% vs. 28.6%; p = 0.005).Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22644058 DOI: 10.1007/s10096-012-1648-0
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis ISSN: 0934-9723 Impact factor: 3.267