Bacteremia: Report of Two Cases in French Hospitals and Comprehensive Review of the Literature

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Journal IDCases

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2017 Apr 19

PMID 28417069

Citations 4

Authors

Mouna Doufair

Catherine Eckert

Laurence Drieux

Come Amani-Moibeni

Liliane Bodin

Michel Denis

Jean Didier Grange

Guillaume Arlet

Frederic Barbut

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Abstract

We report two cases of bacteremia due to from two French hospitals. The first patient with previously diagnosed rectal carcinoma underwent courses of chemotherapy, and antimicrobial treatment, and survived the bacteremia. The second patient with colon perforation and newly diagnosed lung cancer underwent antimicrobial treatment in an ICU but died shortly after the episode of bacteremia. A review of the literature allowed the identification of 137 cases of bacteremia between July 1962 and November 2016. Advanced age, gastro-intestinal disruption, severe underlying diseases and antimicrobial exposure were the major risk factors for bacteremia. Antimicrobial therapy was primarily based on metronidazole and/or vancomycin. The crude mortality rate was 35% (21/60).

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