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Characteristics of Bacteremia in Pediatric Oncology Patients Based on Pathogen Classification as Associated with the Gastrointestinal Mucosa or Skin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

Aron Flagg ,
Sarah Worley  and
Charles B. Foster
Aron Flagg
Affiliation:
Center for Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Sarah Worley
Affiliation:
Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
Charles B. Foster*
Affiliation:
Center for Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
*
Address all correspondence to Charles B. Foster, MD, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Desk S-25, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195 ([email protected]).
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Abstract

Factors favoring blood stream infections associated with gastrointestinal mucosa versus skin organisms were explored. An observed difference was attributable to bacteremia from oral flora in patients with acute myelogenous leukemia or mucositis. Our data do not support the conclusion that isolation of enteric Gram-negatives is unrelated to the central catheter.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2015;00(0): 1–4

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Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 36 , Issue 6 , June 2015 , pp. 730 - 733
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© 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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