Bloodstream infections in a neonatal intensive-care unit: 12 years' experience with an antibiotic control program
Bloodstream infections in a neonatal intensive-care unit: 12 years' experience with an antibiotic control program
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DOI:
10.1086/501619
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发表时间:
1999-04-01
影响因子:
4.5
通讯作者:
Ayers, LW
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作者:
Cordero, L;Sananes, M;Ayers, LW
OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence of gram-positive coccal (GPC), gram-negative bacillary (GNB), and fungal bloodstream infections (BSIs) during a 12-year period in which a consistent antibiotic treatment protocol was in place; to evaluate the efficacy of these antibiotic policies in relation to treatment, to the emergence of bacterial or fungal resistance, and to the occurrence of infection outbreaks or epidemics.STUDY DESIGN: Case series.METHODS: Demographic, clinical, and bacteriological information from 363 infants born during 1986 through 1991 and 1992 through 1997 who developed 433 blood-culture-proven BSIs was analyzed. Early-onset BSIs were defined as those infections discovered within 48 hours of birth, and late-onset BSIs as those that occurred thereafter. Suspected early-onset BSIs were treated with ampicillin and gentamicin, and suspected late-onset BSIs with vancomycin and gentamicin. Antibiotics were changed on the basis of organism antimicrobial susceptibility.RESULTS: Early-onset BSIs were noted in 52 of 21,336 live births and 40 of 20,402 live births during 1986 through 1991 and 1992 through 1997, respectively. GPC (83% due to group B streptococcus [GBS]) accounted for approximately one half of early-onset BSI cases and GNB (68% Enterobacteriaceac) for the remainder. Early-onset GBS declined from 24 to 11 cases (P=.04) and late-onset BSI increased from 111 to 230 cases (P