Blood culture results during the period 1995-2002 in a Greek tertiary care hospital

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Data on BacT/Alert blood cultures in a Greek hospital from 1995 to 2002 were analysed retrospectively. There was a gradual increase in the number of blood cultures (4981 in 1995 to 9054 in 2002), the true positive rate (14.4% to 16.5%) and the number of bloodstream infections/1000 hospital admissions (22.1 to 30.7). The five most common pathogens were Eschericia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, coagulase-negative staphylococci, enterococci and Klebsiella spp. The relative rates of Gram-negative and Gram-positive isolates inverted during the study period because of an increasing frequency of coagulase-negative staphylococci and enterococi. © 2004 Copyright by the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

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Hadziyannis, A. S., Stephanou, I., Dimarogona, K., Pantazatou, A., Fourkas, D., Filiagouridis, D., & Avlami, A. (2004). Blood culture results during the period 1995-2002 in a Greek tertiary care hospital. Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 10(7), 667–670. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-0691.2004.00916.x

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