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ArticleEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2023

Incidence, aetiology and temporal trend of bloodstream infections in southern Sweden from 2006 to 2019: a population-based study.

Oskar Ljungquist, Adam Blomstergren, Adam Merkel, Torgny Sunnerhagen, Karin Holm, Gustav Torisson

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Article in Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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21citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Infectious diseases as the human population enters a stationary phase.Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Oskar LjungquistDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Helsingborg hospital, Helsingborg, Sweden.
Adam BlomstergrenClinical Infection Medicine, Department of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
Adam MerkelDivision of Infection Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Torgny SunnerhagenDivision of Infection Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Karin HolmDivision of Infection Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Gustav TorissonClinical Infection Medicine, Department of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
Lund University · SESkåne University Hospital · SE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BackgroundBloodstream infections (BSI) are a public health concern, and infections caused by resistant bacteria further increase the overall BSI burden on healthcare.AimTo provide a population-based estimate of BSI incidence and relate this to the forthcoming demographic ageing western population change.MethodsWe retrieved positive blood cultures taken from patients in the Skåne region, southern Sweden, 2006-2019 from the Clinical Microbiology Department database and estimated incidence rates (IR), stratified by age (0-49, 50-64, 65-79, ≥ 80 years), sex, year, and species and described antimicrobial susceptibility for Enterobacterales.ResultsWe identified 944,375 blood culture sets, and 129,274 (13.7%) were positive. After deduplication and removal of contaminants, 54,498 separate BSI episodes remained. In total, 30,003 BSI episodes (55%) occurred in men. The overall IR of BSI was 307/100,000 person-years, with an average annual increase of 3.0%. Persons ≥ 80 years had the highest IR, 1781/100,000 person-years, as well as the largest increase.

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BacteremiaSepsisAgedAged, 80 and overAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacteriaHumansIncidenceMaleSwedenAnti-Bacterial Agentsantimicrobial resistancebacterial infectionsblood stream infectionsincidencepreventive medicine

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