Prognostic significance of quantitative bacteremia in septicemic melioidosis

• Main Authors: Amanda L. Walsh, Michael D. Smith, Vanaporn Wuthiekanun, Yupin Suputtamongkol, Wipada Chaowagul, David A.B. Dance, Brian Angus, Nicholas J. White
• Other Authors: Mahidol University
• Format: Note
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/17492

Pour-plate blood cultures were performed for 418 adult patients with suspected septicemic melioidosis in order to determine the relationship between quantitative bacterial counts in blood and mortality. Of 108 patients whose hemocultures yielded Burkholderia pseudomallei, 53% had <10 cfulmL and 2...