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Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteraemia at an urban general hospital
C Feldman et al. J Infect. 1990 Jan.
Abstract
Of 47 patients with Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteraemia admitted to the Hillbrow Hospital, Johannesburg during a period of 18 months, 31 were males and 16 were females. Features predisposing to illness were found in 89.4% patients, chronic alcoholism, neoplastic disease and diabetes mellitus being the most common. Twenty-five infections were acquired in hospital and 22 in the community. Most patients (59.6%) had pneumonia. All isolates of K. pneumoniae were resistant to ampicillin (100%); several (42.6%) were resistant to other antibiotics also. The overall mortality rate was 55.3%. A higher mean initial blood pressure and lower concentrations of serum urea and bilirubin were found in survivors. None of the 28 patients, surviving more than 48 h who received combined therapy with an aminoglycoside and a beta-lactam antibiotic (to which the organism was susceptible) died. Among the remaining patients treated with either an appropriate beta-lactam agent alone, an appropriate aminoglycoside alone or ciprofloxacin the combined mortality rate was 83.3% (P = 0.007).
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