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Secular Trends in Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections: Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Increase the Total Burden of Infection

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2012

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Heidi Ammerlaan, Stephan Harbarth, A. G. M. Buiting, Derrick W. Crook, Fidelma Fitzpatrick, Håkan Hanberger, Loreen A. Herwaldt, P. H. J. van Keulen, Jan Kluytmans, Axel Kola,
Clinical Infectious Diseases

Abstract

Increased nosocomial BSI rates due to ARB occur in addition to infections caused by ASB, increasing the total burden of disease. Hospitals with high ARB infection rates in 2005 had an excess burden of BSI of 20.6 per 100 000 patient-days in a 10-year period, mainly caused by infections with ARB.

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