| Etiology of Community-acquired Bacteremia in Healthy Children |
|
Hyung Tae Kim1, Hyun Oh Jang1, Jin Soo Moon1, Seung Yeon Nam1, Dong Wook Kim1, Chong Guk Lee1, Chong Rae Cho2 |
1Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Inje University, Goyang, Korea
2Department of Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, Inje University, Goyang, Korea |
| 건강한 소아에서 지역사회 획득 균혈증의 원인균 |
|
김형태1, 장현오1, 문진수1, 남승연1, 김동욱1, 이종국1, 조종래2 |
1인제대학교 의과대학 소아과학교실
2인제대학교 의과대학 진단검사의학교실 |
Correspondence:
Hyun Oh Jang, Email: indol0195@chol.net
|
|
|
|
|
| Abstract |
Purpose
: A full view of the spectrum of all bacterial diseases in healthy children is essential to the establishment of public health priorities. Accurate information on the relative importance of the various pathogens in terms of the age of the affected patients, the site of infection and the case fatality rate are valuable to the clinician in choosing antimicrobial treatments.
Methods
: Fifty-nine episodes of bacteremia were analysed. Data were collected at Ilsan Paik Hospital from January 2000 to December 2003. Analysis of each collected episode included isolating pathogen from blood culture, diagnosis, hospital course, isolating pathogens from other tissue sites, and studying results of antimicrobial sensitivity tests.
Results
: Fifty-nine cases of community-acquired bacteremia were reviewed. The most common pathogen was Staphylococcus aureus(11 cases, 18.6 percent), followed by Salmonella(10 cases, 16.9 percent), E. coli(7 cases, 11.9 percent), Streptococcus pneumoniae(five cases, 8.5 percent), Streptococcus viridans(5 cases 8.5 percent). The most common diagnosis was bacteremia without an indentified focus(61 percent), followed by meningitis(12 percent), bacteremia with enteritis(10.2 percent) and bacteremia with urinary tract infection(8.5 percent). Salmonella was still an important causative agent of bacteremia. The relative importance of Haemophilus influenza and Streptococcus pneumoniae was lower than in other studies. The most common organism responsible for bacteremia without an identified focus was Staphylococcus aureus. The case-fatality was 3.4 percent for all cases of bacteremia.
Conclusion
: We reviewed the etiology of community-acquired bacteremia. These data may be useful in the establishment of public health priorities and serve as a reference for selection of antibiotics in the empirical therapy of suspected invasive bacterial infection. |
| Key Words:
Bacteremia , Community-acquired infection , Etiology |
|
PDF Links
Download Citation
