Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet Zaragoza, Spain.
Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet Zaragoza, Spain.
Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin (Engl Ed). 2022 Apr;40(4):183-186. doi: 10.1016/j.eimce.2021.01.007.
The reasons for the decrease in blood cultures were investigated and the rate and aetiology of bacteremia and contaminated blood cultures collected from COVID and non-COVID patients were assessed.
We performed a retrospective analysis in a tertiary hospital in Spain during the COVID period from 4th March 2020 to 21st June 2020.
The number of blood cultures processed was 5313, representing 22.7% and 18.8% of decrease compared to the same months of 2019 and 2018, respectively (p=0.173). The rate of bacteremia was 1.2% higher among COVID-patients than among non-COVID patients (p<0.001). COVID patients had a higher proportion of nosocomial bacteremia (95.5%) than non-COVID patients (30.5%) (p<0.001). In COVID-positive patients, the contamination rate was 12.3% vs 5.7% in non-COVID patients (p<0.001).
There was a decrease in the number of blood cultures collected during the COVID period compared to previous years. Bacteremia in COVID patients was mainly nosocomial and catheter-related.
本研究旨在调查血培养减少的原因,并评估 COVID 患者和非 COVID 患者血培养中菌血症的发生率和病因。
我们在西班牙的一家三级医院进行了回顾性分析,研究时间段为 2020 年 3 月 4 日至 2020 年 6 月 21 日。
与 2019 年和 2018 年同期相比,血培养的处理数量分别减少了 22.7%和 18.8%(p=0.173)。COVID 患者的菌血症发生率比非 COVID 患者高 1.2%(p<0.001)。COVID 患者的医院获得性菌血症比例(95.5%)高于非 COVID 患者(30.5%)(p<0.001)。在 COVID 阳性患者中,污染率为 12.3%,而非 COVID 患者为 5.7%(p<0.001)。
与前几年相比,COVID 期间采集的血培养数量有所减少。COVID 患者的菌血症主要为医院获得性和导管相关。