Elizabethkingia anophelis: Clinical Experience of an Academic Health System in Southeastern Wisconsin

In late 2015 and early 2016, 11 patients were identified with cultures positive for Elizabethkingia anophelis in our health system. All patients had positive blood cultures upon admission. Chart review showed that all had major comorbidities and recent health care exposure. The attributable mortalit...

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Autores principales: Figueroa Castro, Carlos E, Johnson, Carrie, Williams, Mary, VanDerSlik, April, Graham, Mary Beth, Letzer, David, Ledeboer, Nathan, Buchan, Blake W, Block, Timothy, Borlaug, Gwen, Munoz-Price, L Silvia
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5751080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29308406
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx251
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author Figueroa Castro, Carlos E
Johnson, Carrie
Williams, Mary
VanDerSlik, April
Graham, Mary Beth
Letzer, David
Ledeboer, Nathan
Buchan, Blake W
Block, Timothy
Borlaug, Gwen
Munoz-Price, L Silvia
author_facet Figueroa Castro, Carlos E
Johnson, Carrie
Williams, Mary
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Buchan, Blake W
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description In late 2015 and early 2016, 11 patients were identified with cultures positive for Elizabethkingia anophelis in our health system. All patients had positive blood cultures upon admission. Chart review showed that all had major comorbidities and recent health care exposure. The attributable mortality rate was 18.2%.
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spelling pubmed-57510802018-01-05 Elizabethkingia anophelis: Clinical Experience of an Academic Health System in Southeastern Wisconsin Figueroa Castro, Carlos E Johnson, Carrie Williams, Mary VanDerSlik, April Graham, Mary Beth Letzer, David Ledeboer, Nathan Buchan, Blake W Block, Timothy Borlaug, Gwen Munoz-Price, L Silvia Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report In late 2015 and early 2016, 11 patients were identified with cultures positive for Elizabethkingia anophelis in our health system. All patients had positive blood cultures upon admission. Chart review showed that all had major comorbidities and recent health care exposure. The attributable mortality rate was 18.2%. Oxford University Press 2017-12-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5751080/ /pubmed/29308406 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx251 Text en © The Author(s) 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Figueroa Castro, Carlos E
Johnson, Carrie
Williams, Mary
VanDerSlik, April
Graham, Mary Beth
Letzer, David
Ledeboer, Nathan
Buchan, Blake W
Block, Timothy
Borlaug, Gwen
Munoz-Price, L Silvia
Elizabethkingia anophelis: Clinical Experience of an Academic Health System in Southeastern Wisconsin
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title_fullStr Elizabethkingia anophelis: Clinical Experience of an Academic Health System in Southeastern Wisconsin
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29308406
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx251
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