Clinical outcome of dual colistin- and carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infections: A single-center retrospective study of 75 cases in India

Publication date: Available online 12 August 2017
Source:American Journal of Infection Control
Author(s): Amarjeet Kaur, Sumanth Gandra, Priyanka Gupta, Yatin Mehta, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Sharmila Sengupta
In this study, we retrospectively evaluated clinical outcomes of 75 patients with dual colistin- and carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infections over a 5-year period in a single tertiary care hospital in India. We observed a high in-hospital mortality rate of 69.3%. Our findings indicate the urgent need for new antibiotics to treat these infections.



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