Osteoarticular and skin and soft-tissue infections caused by Streptococcus agalactiae in elderly patients are frequently associated with bacteremia

被引：11
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作者：
Ruppen, Corinne [1 ,2 ]
Notter, Julia [3 ]
Strahm, Carol [4 ]
Sonderegger, Beat [5 ]
Sendi, Parham [1 ,6 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Bern, Inst Infect Dis, Bern, Switzerland
[2] Univ Bern, Grad Sch Cellular & Biomed Sci, Bern, Switzerland
[3] Univ Basel, Kantonsspital Baselland, Univ Clin Internal Med, Bruderholz, Switzerland
[4] Cantonal Hosp St Gallen, Dept Infect Dis, St Gallen, Switzerland
[5] Kantonsspital Lucerne, Dept Infect Dis & Hosp Epidemiol, Luzern, Switzerland
[6] Univ Bern, Dept Infect Dis, Bern Univ Hosp, Bern, Switzerland
来源：
DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE | 2018年 / 90卷 / 01期
关键词：
Group B Streptococcus; Streptococcus agalactiae; Infections in the elderly; NONPREGNANT ADULTS; DISEASE;
D O I：
10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2017.09.008
中图分类号：
R51 [传染病];
学科分类号：
100401 ;
摘要：
Older persons (>= 65 years) are at risk for invasive group B streptococcal (GBS) infections. The most frequent clinical syndromes in 174 infection episodes were osteoarticular (40%) and skin and soft-tissue infections (30%). In 36% of episodes, a companion microorganism was isolated, and in 45%, blood culture results were positive. Antibiotics were streamlined after species identification in 29% of monomicrobial infections. These findings have clinical and therapeutic implications for GBS infections in the elderly. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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