coagulase/fever

BACKGROUND Management of febrile neutropenic episodes (FE) is challenged by lacking microbiological and clinical documentation of infection. We aimed at evaluating the utility of monitoring blood procalcitonin (PCT) in FE for initial diagnosis of infection and reassessment in persistent

A retrospective evaluation was conducted to determine which children admitted for fever and neutropenia required empiric vancomycin therapy, and to develop a clinical pathway for appropriate treatment. Chart review identified 109 admissions of 36 pediatric oncology patients for fever and

This study deals with sepsis caused by coagulase-negative stapylococci in a neonatal intensive care unit over a period of four years and eleven months. The global incidence was 20.7/1000 (50 cases out of a total of 2,416 admissions) and was higher in newborns with lower weight and with a shorter

We describe a 25-year-old male presenting with fever during the non-neutropenic phase of chemotherapy. The presentation was that of a viral infection. The cause of the fever turned out to be a bacteremia with coagulase-negative staphylococci (CONS) originating from a totally implanted venous access

Libman-Sacks endocarditis is the most widely encountered aseptic endocarditis among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Due to the deformed cardiac valves, secondary infective endocarditis should be considered in lupus patients with acute refractory heart failure and fever of unknown origin.

OBJECTIVE To define an outbreak of bacteraemia due to coagulase negative staphylococci highly resistant to ciprofloxacin in a leukaemia unit, investigate the source and mode of spread of the outbreak strain, and assess control measures. METHODS The outbreak strain was characterised by five different

The case records of 2177 newborn infants admitted in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) from January, 1989, through July, 1990, with positive blood cultures for coagulase-negative staphylococci (C-NS) were evaluated. Seventy four (3.4%) neonates yielded C-NS in blood cultures during the study

The purpose of this study was to examine coagulase-negative staphylococcal infections in bone marrow transplantation (BMT) patients with central vein catheters by investigating incidence, clinical relevance, risk factors, methicillin resistance, clinical impact of initial empiric antimicrobial

The frequency of strain relatedness was determined among randomly selected patients with coagulase-negative staphylococcal infections as determined in multiple blood cultures by plasmid typing, determination of species, and antibiotyping. Strain relatedness was demonstrated in 21 of 47 episodes of

The drug resistance of 202 coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) strains isolated from patients with urinary tract infection (UTI) at urinary colony counts of 10(5) or more between 1989 and 1991 was studied. Of the 202 strains, 185 were submitted from UTI patients with underlying urinary disorders

Staphylococcus lugdunensis (SL) is a species belonging to the group of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS). It can cause severe infections such as endocarditis. Three cases of endocarditis caused by SL are presented. The first case describes a 71-year-old man with a fever and endogenous

To assess the clinical significance of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) in patients with urinary tract infection (UTI), the clinical characteristics of a total of 117 patients (106 complicated UTI patients, 11 uncomplicated UTI patients) from whom CNS were isolated at urinary colony counts of

We examined the pathogenicity of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CONS) in newborn infants by comparing presenting nonspecific signs of infection in infants with and without CONS bacteremia. During a 6-month period 799 blood cultures were obtained in a tertiary care nursery; 81 (10.1%) grew CONS

Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNST) are the most-common cause of ventriculoperitoneal shunt infections. Some of these strains produce a slime-like substance. We reviewed 19 episodes of ventriculoperitoneal shunt infections due to CNST in 17 patients. Eleven episodes of infection were caused by