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Published on: February 10, 2011
Enterococcus faecalis in blood cultures-a prospective study on the role of persistent bacteremia
Karl Oldberg1, Magnus Rasmussen2
1Section for Infection Medicine, Department of Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Clinical Microbiology, Labmedicin, Region Skåne, Lund, Sweden.
Abstract:
Enterococcus faecalis can cause infective endocarditis and other complicated infections. We prospectively investigate the incidence of persistent bacteremia with E. faecalis. Of 50 episodes with monomicrobial E. faecalis bacteremia the control blood culture after 48 to 72 hours was positive in 5 episodes (10%) of which 4 had a complicated focal infection.
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