Recent experience with bacteremia in patients presenting cancer |
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| Authors: | J Klastersky D Weerts |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Key Laboratory of Dairy Science, Ministry of Education, College of Food Science, Northeast Agricultural University, 600 Changjiang Road, Harbin, 150030, Heilongjiang, China;2. Heilongjiang Institute of Green Food Science, Harbin 150023, China;3. Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China;4. Heilongjiang Ounengda Dairy Co.Ltd., Harbin 150028, China;1. Mathematics Department, Faculty of Science, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor Bahru 81310, Johor, Malaysia;2. Faculty of Computer Science, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Batu Pahat 86400, Johor, Malaysia |
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| Abstract: | In a hospital taking care of patients with cancer, 115 consecutive cases of bacteremia have been studied to define their characteristics and to correlate them to the prognosis.Infections caused by gram positive organisms were less lethal than those due to gramnegative bacilli. This was presumably due to the worse clinical condition of the patients presenting bacteremia caused by gram-negative rods and to the relative resistance of these organisms to the antibiotics used for initial therapy.This report emphasizes the need for further investigation of empiric antimicrobial regimens to be used in patients presenting a serious underlying illness, such as cancer, and who are suspected of presenting a serious infection. |
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