The clinical usefulness of an ongoing bacteremia surveillance program.

Surveillance of bacteremic patients within one week of the detection of a positive blood culture provides information of great clinical utility for relatively little effort. In this report one year's experience is reviewed to illustrate that an individual hospital's experience with bacteremia may diverge from national norms. Such reviews may also detect recurring errors in medical judgment which may be corrected through proper education.

Mycoplasmemia in adult male patients.

Mycoplasma hominis mycoplasmemia was associated with obstruction, manipulation, or surgery of the genitourinary tract in five adult men. A four-fold increase in specific antibody titer against M hominis was demonstrated in serial convalescent serum obtained from one patient. Two patients became afebrile after treatment with tetracycline; a third recovered without therapy for a Mycoplasm infection.