The epidemiology of recurrent Gram-negative bacteremia in a tertiary-care hospital.

Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis

Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.

Published: April 2010

We examined recurrent Gram-negative bacteremia in a prospective cohort from a tertiary hospital. Seventeen (7.1%) of 241 bacteremic patients developed recurrence (median time to recurrence = 44 days; range, 9-217 days). Recurrent and nonrecurrent bacteremic patients did not differ in clinical characteristics and mortality.

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