https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/561150
標題: | Clostridium difficile Bacteremia, Taiwan | 作者: | Lee N.-Y. YU-TSUNG HUANG PO-REN HSUEH Ko W.-C. |
公開日期: | 2010 | 卷: | 16 | 期: | 8 | 起(迄)頁: | 1204-1210 | 來源出版物: | Emerging Infectious Diseases | 摘要: | To determine clinical characteristics and outcome of patients with Clostridium difficile bacteremia (CDB), we identify ed 12 patients with CDB in 2 medical centers in Taiwan; all had underlying systemic diseases. Five had gastrointestinal diseases or conditions, including pseudomembranous colitis (2 patients); 4 recalled diarrhea, but only 5 had recent exposure to antimicrobial drugs. Ten available isolates were susceptible to metronidazole and vancomycin. Five isolates had C. difficile toxin A or B. Of 5 patients who died, 3 died of CDB. Of 8 patients treated with metronidazole or vancomycin, only 1 died, and all 4 patients treated with other drugs died (12.5% vs. 100%; p = 0.01). C. difficile bacteremia, although uncommon, is thus associated with substantial illness and death rates. |
URI: | https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/561150 | ISSN: | 1080-6040 | DOI: | 10.3201/eid1608.100064 | SDG/關鍵字: | cefepime; cefmetazole; ceftriaxone; clindamycin; daptomycin; doripenem; ertapenem; fusidic acid; imipenem; meropenem; metronidazole; penicillin G; piperacillin plus tazobactam; RNA 16S; sultamicillin; teicoplanin; tigecycline; vancomycin; adolescent; adult; aged; antibiotic sensitivity; article; bacterium identification; bacterium isolate; blood culture; child; clinical article; Clostridium difficile infection; controlled study; female; genotype; human; male; minimum inhibitory concentration; nonhuman; nucleotide sequence; polymerase chain reaction; pulsed field gel electrophoresis; retrospective study; school child; sequence analysis; Taiwan; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Bacteremia; Child; Clostridium difficile; Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous; Female; Humans; Male; Metronidazole; Microbial Sensitivity Tests; Middle Aged; Retrospective Studies; Taiwan; Vancomycin; Young Adult |
顯示於: | 醫學院附設醫院 (臺大醫院) |
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