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Bacterial Isolates In Neutropenic Febrile Patients, M Karim, W Khan, B Farooqi, I Malik
Bacterial Isolates In Neutropenic Febrile Patients, M Karim, W Khan, B Farooqi, I Malik
Section of Internal Medicine
One hundred consecutive patients with documented bacteremia and neutrophil count of 0.5 x 10(9)/L or below were retrospectively studied to determine the pattern of infection at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi. These included patients with primary haematologic malignancies presenting with low counts, and those patients with cancer who developed neutropenia as a result of chemotherapy. The gram negative organism pseudomonas aeruginosa was the most common bacterial organism isolated constituting 31% of all positive blood cultures. Gram positive organisms were frequently isolated comprising 24% of all isolates of which 15% were Staph.aureus. Staph. epidermidis was not isolated in this …