Enterococcus spp. in a single blood culture: bacteremia or contamination?

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• 作者：R. Khatib ; ^{riad.khatib@stjohn.org} ; V. Labalo ; M. Sharma ; L.B. Johnson ; K. Riederer
• 关键词：Enterococcus ; Bacteremia ; Contamination
• 刊名：Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：87
• 期：3
• 页码：289-290
• 全文大小：158 K
• 卷排序：87

文摘

ENC in 1 BC represents bacteremia or contamination. We compared adult inpatients with bacteremia or contamination to identify predictors of contamination. We found that contamination predictors were vancomycinresistance, ampicillinresistance, commensal organism copresence, and nonurinary/abdominal sources of sepsis.