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CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION
Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 57-61Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2009.02900.x
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Bacteraemia; Campylobacter; mortality; comorbidity
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- Aarhus University
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Invasive disease as a result of Campylobacter is rarely reported. We reviewed 46 cases of blood stream infection with Campylobacter in a Danish population with complete follow-up. The incidence was 2.9 per 1 million person-years with a peak incidence in the age group above 80 years. In the population, the ratio of notified bacteraemia/enteritis patients with Campylobacter infection was 0.004. Patients with bacteraemia were older and had higher comorbidity, e.g. alcoholism, immunosuppression, previous gastrointestinal surgery or HIV infection. We found 26% of blood isolates resistant to ciprofloxacin. The length of hospitalization was significantly longer in bacteraemia patients, whereas the outcome was favourable with 28-day mortality of 4% in bacteraemia patients and 1% in enteritis patients. None of the bacteraemia patients relapsed within 365-day follow-up.
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