Ribarov R Author

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Etiological Structure and In Vitro Susceptibility to Antimicrobial Agents from Blood Cultures in Bulgarian Multi profile Hospital, 2015-2016

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Gergova I, Popivanov G, Dimov V, Odisseeva E, Petrov N, Petrov H, Ribarov R and Mutafchiyski V

During the period 2015-2016, a total of 1490 haemocultures were tested, 24.4% of which were positive. Among the 363 isolated microbial agents, 224 (62% or 15% of all) were considered clinically significant with equal distribution of Gram-positive (48.2%) and Gram-negative bacteria (47.8%). This finding differs from European
and US practice where Gram positive bacteria are dominant. Fungi were isolated in 4%. The etiological structure was as follows:Coagulase Negative Staphylococcus – 20.1%, E. coli - 14.3%, Enterococcus spp. - 14.3%, Klebsiella spp. - 11.2%, S. aureus - 10.3%, Acinetobacter baumannii - 9.4%, Enterobacter spp. - 5.8%, P. aeruginosa – 4.9%. A trend toward increase of Klebsiella spp, E.coli, S. aureus и Candida spp. and decrease of coagulase-negative St... view more»

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