The use of an assay with rapid results reduced the use of antistaphylococcal therapy among patients who did not have S. aureus bacteremia; it also decreased the use of MRS drug therapy and led to earlier appropriate therapy among patients with MSSA bacteremia.
The use of an assay with rapid results reduced the use of antistaphylococcal therapy among patients who did not have S. aureus bacteremia; it also decreased the use of MRS drug therapy and led to earlier appropriate therapy among patients with MSSA bacteremia.
The incidence of non-staphylococcal bacteraemias in the pre- and post-CDI periods was nearly the same. Cases of bacteraemias in the CDI period more frequently involved organisms of unknown source and uncertain pathogenicity, and were usually not found to require antimicrobial therapy. The data favour the assumption that CDI-associated bacteraemia may be associated with bacterial invasion of the damaged colonic epithelium.
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