Affiliation:
1. Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota 55901
Abstract
To deterimine the incidence of bacteremia in healty adults, blood cultures were obtained from 240 patients who had no demonstrable foci of infection. Five patients (2.1%) had positive blood cultures.
Staphylococcus epidermidis
was isolated from four patients and
Alcaligenes faecalis
from one. In each of these patients, the organism isolated probably represented contamination rather than bacteremia.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Cited by
27 articles.
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