The effect of follow-up blood cultures on mortality and antibiotic use in gram-negative bloodstream infections.

Mehmet YildizHamid HabibiFatma Betul AltinSeref Kerem CorbaciogluHasan Selcuk Ozger

Published in: BMC infectious diseases (2023)

Routine FUBC should not be recommended because of the low prevalence of persistent infections in patients under appropriate antibiotic therapy and FUBC increases antibiotic consumption.

Keyphrases

gram negative
multidrug resistant
ejection fraction
risk factors
newly diagnosed
prognostic factors
stem cells
cardiovascular events
mesenchymal stem cells