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Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infection After Cardiac Surgery: Risk Factors and Outcome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Christian Olsson ,
Ann Tammelin  and
Stefan Thelin
Christian Olsson*
Affiliation:
Department of Surgical Sciences, Cardiothoracic Unit, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
Ann Tammelin
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Bacteriology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Stefan Thelin
Affiliation:
Department of Surgical Sciences, Cardiothoracic Unit, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
*
Thoraxcentrum, Akademiska sjukhuset, S-751 85, Uppsala, Sweden ([email protected])
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Abstract

Thirty-eight patients (10 cases and 28 controls) were included in a case-control study of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection after cardiac surgery in 833 patients. All bacterial strains were found to be unique by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. In multivariable risk-factor analysis, only valve prosthesis implantation was associated with blood-stream infection. The early and late case mortality rate was 0%.

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Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 83 - 85
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2006

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