1. Risk factors for enterococcal urinary tract infections: a multinational, retrospective cohort study
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Christiane Vank, Aina Gomila-Grange, Study Sites, Irith Wiegand, Tanya Babich, Leonard Leibovici, Leo van den Heuvel, Miquel Pujol, Jordi Carratalà, Noa Eliakim-Raz, Sally Grier, Evelyn Shaw, Adi Turjeman, Ibironke Addy, Alasdair P. MacGowan, Nienke Cuperus, and Cuong Vuong
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0301 basic medicine ,Microbiology (medical) ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Multivariate analysis ,biology ,Urinary retention ,Hospitalized patients ,business.industry ,Urinary system ,030106 microbiology ,Retrospective cohort study ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Infectious Diseases ,Medical microbiology ,Enterococcus ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Male gender - Abstract
Complicated urinary tract infection (cUTI) is a frequent cause of morbidity. In this multinational retrospective cohort study, we aimed to demonstrate risk factors for enterococcal UTI. Univariate and multivariate analyses of risk factors for enterococcal infection were performed. Among 791 hospitalized patients with cUTI, enterococci accounted for approximately 10% of cases (78/791). Risk factors for enterococcal UTI in multivariable analysis were male gender, age range of 55-75 years, catheter-associated UTI, and urinary retention. This information may assist treating physicians in their decision-making on prescribing empiric anti-enterococcus treatment to hospitalized patients presenting with cUTI and thus improve clinical outcomes.
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- 2021
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