Risk factors for mortality caused by Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in cancer patients.

Introduction: Staphylococcus aureus is the cause of 11-33% of nosocomial bloodstream infections and has a complication rate close to 50%. S. aureus accounts for 31% of isolates in the Instituto Nacional de Cancerología (INC), in Bogotá, Colombia, and is the main etiological agent of bacteremia.

[Therapeutic approach to Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia].

Staphylococcus aureus is an important human pathogen, responsible for 11-33% of the bacteremias acquired in the hospital setting and nearly 50% of those acquired in the community at large. The epidemiology of S. aureus bacteremia is discussed, with an special emphasis on the situation in Colombia and the resistance mechanisms against the major drug groups used for the treatment.