morganella morganii: epidemiology of bacteremic disease. | a retrospective review of microbiology records revealed 19 documented episodes of m. morganii bacteremia in 18 patients at a veterans administration hospital during a 5.5 year period. thirteen of 19 bacteremias were related to nosocomial infections; 11 of the 13 nosocomial bacteremias occurred in surgical patients. nine of the 13 patients with nosocomial bacteremia had received recent therapy with a beta-lactam antibiotic. the most common source of bacteremia was a postoperative wound infection ... | 1984 | 6561180 |