| clinical and molecular epidemiology of enterococcal bacteremia in a pediatric teaching hospital. | an apparent increase in the incidence of enterococcal bacteremias from 7 to 48/1000 bacteremias during 1986 to 1991 (p < 0.01) prompted this descriptive clinical and molecular epidemiologic study of 83 episodes occurring in 80 children between 1986 and 1992. most community-acquired cases were in infants, in comparison with nosocomial episodes (24/26 and 34/57; p < 0.01); many of them were neonates (10/26 and 6/57; p < 0.01). nosocomial cases were associated with underlying conditions including m ... | 1994 | 8071746 |
| comparison of patients with enterococcal bacteremia due to strains with and without high-level resistance to gentamicin. | patients with enterococcal bacteremia due to strains with and without high-level gentamicin resistance (hlgr; mic, > 2,000 mg/l) were compared. between 1986 and 1991, there were 178 episodes of enterococcal bacteremia: 47 and 131 episodes, respectively, due to enterococcal strains with and without hlgr. sixty-two, 57, and 59 episodes, respectively, were in patients with transient bacteremia (a single positive blood culture), bacteremia (two or more positive blood cultures), and polymicrobial bac ... | 1993 | 8353250 |
| bloodstream infections in a neonatal intensive-care unit: 12 years' experience with an antibiotic control program. | to assess the prevalence of gram-positive coccal (gpc), gram-negative bacillary (gnb), and fungal blood-stream 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. | 1999 | 10219874 |