Review articles
- Diagnosis of bacterial and fungal bloodstream infections in the ICU: Murray et al. Crit Care Med. 2012 Dec;40(12):3277-82.
- When are oral antibiotic a safe and effective choice for bacteremia?: Hale et al. J Hosp Med 2018;13:328-335.
Trials
- Prognostic factors in Gm- bacteremia: Bryant et al. Arch Intern Med. 2017;127(1):120-128.
- Higher failure rate for GNB bacteremia with non-beta-lactams than with beta-lactams: Jeffres et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2016;137:1148-1153.
- PO antibiotics for Gm- bloodstream infections: no difference between FQs, TMP-SMX, or beta-lactams: Kutob et al. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2016;48(5):498-503.
- Oral stepdown for Enterobacteriaceae-associated bacteremic UTI: Rieger et al. Pharmacotherapy. 2017;37(11):1479-1483.
- No need for repeat blood cultures in Gm- bacteremia: Canzoneri et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2017;65(11):1776-1779.
- Oral stepdown for Enterobacteriaceae: FQ = beta-lactams: Mercuro et al. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2018;51(5):687-692.
- 7 days of antibiotics for Gm- bacteremia: Yahav et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2019 Sep 13;69(7):1091-1098.
- 5 day oral stepdown for Gm- bacteremia = all IV therapy regarding 30-day mortality and recurrence, with source control and clinical response: Tamma et al JAMA Intern Med. 2019;179(3):316-323.
- FQ = beta-lactams for oral step down therapy for Strep bacteremia: Arensman et al. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2020;64(11):e01515-20.
- Afebrile HD patients with bacteremia had a higher mortality than febrile patients: Kim et al. Hemodial Int. 2018;22(1):119-125.
- Oral beta-lactam = FQ or TMP-SMX for Enterobacteriaceae bacteremia with suspected urine source: Sutton et al. JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(10):e2020166.
- Mortality rates of bacteremia, risk factors, impact of MDR and XDR organisms: Santoro et al. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020;7(11):ofaa461.
- Role of repeat BC in bacteremia: useful in S. aureus or endovascular infection, not in Gm- and strep: Wiggers et al. BMC Infect Dis. 2016;16:286.
- Inadequate treatment of bloodstream infections in critically ill patients was associated in increased hospital mortality: Ibrahim et al. Chest. 2000;118(1):146-155.
Articles
- Toothbrushing associated with 23% rate of transient bacteremia with organisms that cause endocarditis; amoxicillin prophylaxis with tooth extraction significantly reduced the rate of transient bacteremia: Lockhart et al. Circulation. 2008;117(24):3118-3125.
- Risk of bacteremia due to peripheral IVs: Blauw et al. Open Forum Infect Dis, 2019;6(4). ofz111.
- Risk of bacteremia due to peripheral IVs: Trinh et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2011;32(6):579-83.
- Risk of bacteremia due to peripheral IVs: Sato et al. BMC Infect Dis. 2017;17:434.
- Risk of bacteremia due to peripheral IVs: Austin et al. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2016;3(2):ofw072.
- Bloodstream infections in patients with cirrhosis: Bartoletti et al. Virulence. 2016;7(3):309-319.
- PO antibiotic for Gm- bloodstream infections: Kutob et al. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2016;48(5):498-503.
Tweetorials
Bacteremia in general
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