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. 2006 Jul;59(7):760-1.
doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2005.12.009. Epub 2006 May 2.

Case mortality in polymicrobial bloodstream infections

F E McKenzie

Case mortality in polymicrobial bloodstream infections

F E McKenzie. J Clin Epidemiol. 2006 Jul.
No abstract available

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Fig. 1
Nine studies published in the 1990s included comparative case-mortality data on polymicrobial and monomicrobial bloodstream infections in HIV-negative patients in U.S. hospitals. The data are shown in left-to-right order [–23] from the lowest (14%) to the highest (43%) percentage of total infections that were polymicrobial. These data indicate a mortality gap similar to that in the earlier reports cited in the text (ie, the average mortality was 47% for polymicrobial infections and 25% for monomicrobial infections, with an average ratio of 2.15).
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