| [bacteremia in 2 hospitals in rosario, argentina]. | bacteremia is associated with high morbidity and mortality. nosocomial bacteremia is associated with an attributable mortality of 35%. in order to characterize the etiological agent of bacteremia cases during two time periods, 6605 patients were studied as follows: 1) from 1980 to 1982 (n = 2401) and 2) from 1988 to 2000 (n = 4204). a total of 596 cases of bacteremia were detected. the most frequent agents were staphylococcus aureus, negative coagulase (cns) staphylococcus, klebsiella pneumoniae ... | 2003 | 14587380 |