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Factors associated with blood culture positivity in patients with complicated skin and skin structure infection—a population-based study
Skin and skin structure infection (SSSI) is classified as complicated (cSSSI) if it involves deep subcutaneous tissue or requires surgery. Factors associated with blood culture sampling and bacteremia have not been established in patients with cSSSI. Moreover, the benefit of information acquired fro...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6570775/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31011854 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10096-019-03560-9 |
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author | Halavaara, Mika Jääskeläinen, Iiro H. Hagberg, Lars Järvinen, Asko |
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description | Skin and skin structure infection (SSSI) is classified as complicated (cSSSI) if it involves deep subcutaneous tissue or requires surgery. Factors associated with blood culture sampling and bacteremia have not been established in patients with cSSSI. Moreover, the benefit of information acquired from positive blood culture is unknown. The aim of this study was to address these important issues. In this retrospective population-based study from two Nordic cities, a total of 460 patients with cSSSI were included. Blood cultures were drawn from 258 (56.1%) patients and they were positive in 61 (23.6%) of them. Factors found to be associated with more blood culture sampling in multivariate analysis were diabetes, duration of symptoms shorter than 2 days and higher C-reactive protein (CRP) level. Whereas factors associated with less frequent blood culture sampling were peripheral vascular disease and a surgical wound infection. In patients from whom blood cultures were taken, alcohol abuse was the only factor associated with culture positivity, as CRP level was not. Patients with a positive blood culture had antibiotic streamlining more often than non-bacteremic patients. A high rate of blood culture positivity in patients with cSSSI was observed. Factors related to more frequent blood culture sampling were different from those associated with a positive culture. |
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spelling | pubmed-65707752019-07-01 Factors associated with blood culture positivity in patients with complicated skin and skin structure infection—a population-based study Halavaara, Mika Jääskeläinen, Iiro H. Hagberg, Lars Järvinen, Asko Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis Original Article Skin and skin structure infection (SSSI) is classified as complicated (cSSSI) if it involves deep subcutaneous tissue or requires surgery. Factors associated with blood culture sampling and bacteremia have not been established in patients with cSSSI. Moreover, the benefit of information acquired from positive blood culture is unknown. The aim of this study was to address these important issues. In this retrospective population-based study from two Nordic cities, a total of 460 patients with cSSSI were included. Blood cultures were drawn from 258 (56.1%) patients and they were positive in 61 (23.6%) of them. Factors found to be associated with more blood culture sampling in multivariate analysis were diabetes, duration of symptoms shorter than 2 days and higher C-reactive protein (CRP) level. Whereas factors associated with less frequent blood culture sampling were peripheral vascular disease and a surgical wound infection. In patients from whom blood cultures were taken, alcohol abuse was the only factor associated with culture positivity, as CRP level was not. Patients with a positive blood culture had antibiotic streamlining more often than non-bacteremic patients. A high rate of blood culture positivity in patients with cSSSI was observed. Factors related to more frequent blood culture sampling were different from those associated with a positive culture. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2019-04-22 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6570775/ /pubmed/31011854 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10096-019-03560-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Halavaara, Mika Jääskeläinen, Iiro H. Hagberg, Lars Järvinen, Asko Factors associated with blood culture positivity in patients with complicated skin and skin structure infection—a population-based study |
title | Factors associated with blood culture positivity in patients with complicated skin and skin structure infection—a population-based study |
title_full | Factors associated with blood culture positivity in patients with complicated skin and skin structure infection—a population-based study |
title_fullStr | Factors associated with blood culture positivity in patients with complicated skin and skin structure infection—a population-based study |
title_full_unstemmed | Factors associated with blood culture positivity in patients with complicated skin and skin structure infection—a population-based study |
title_short | Factors associated with blood culture positivity in patients with complicated skin and skin structure infection—a population-based study |
title_sort | factors associated with blood culture positivity in patients with complicated skin and skin structure infection—a population-based study |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6570775/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31011854 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10096-019-03560-9 |
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