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Comparison of Antibiotic Susceptibility Patterns of Bacterial Isolates Based on Time From Hospitalization and Culture Source: Implications for Hospital Antibiograms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2015

Yaakov Dickstein ,
Yuval Geffen ,
Leonard Leibovici  and
Mical Paul
Yaakov Dickstein*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
Yuval Geffen
Affiliation:
Medical Microbiology Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
Leonard Leibovici
Affiliation:
Medicine E, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Mical Paul
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
*
Address correspondence to Dr. Yaakov Dickstein, Division of Infectious Diseases, Rambam Health Care Campus, HaAliya HaShniya St. 8, Haifa, Israel 3109601 (y_dickstein@rambam.health.gov.il).
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Abstract

We assessed the effects of time from hospitalization and culture source on bacterial susceptibility profiles. Increasing resistance correlated with increasing time from hospitalization for all bacterial groups, with 7 days in hospital representing the best time point for dichotomizing susceptibility rates rather than 48 hours. Antibiograms based on isolates from any source best represented susceptibility profiles.

Infect. Control Hosp. Epidemiol. 2016;37(2):212–214

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , February 2016 , pp. 212 - 214
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© 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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Footnotes

PREVIOUS PRESENTATION. The data from this article was presented as a poster at the 2015 Conference of the Israeli Society of Infectious Diseases.

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