Bacterial aerobic Bacteraemia at AL- Kindi Teaching Hospital 2007-2009: Etiology diversity, Clinical features, and Outcome

Data regarding the incidence, etiology and outcome of bacteraemia taken from al-kindi hospital were collected, and compared the situation between the three years: 2007, 2008, 2009. a total number of blood samples was (505), from this number only (70) (13.8%) is positive. the rate of positivity was significant greater in 2009 (17.7%) than 2008 (11.8%) and 2007 (9.1%). the calculated incidence of significant episodes of bacteraemia was 12.6% .the five most commonly isolated microorganisms were: salmonella typhi30(46.8%), staphylococcus aureus 12 (18.7%), escherichia coli 10 (15.6%),klebsiella 4(6.2%) and enterobacter sp.3(4.6%) varied throughout this period, significant increase was noted in 2009. the acquisition of blood stream infections was nosocomial in 8.5% of cases.60% of salmonella typhi were amoxicillin resistant. also staph.aureus isolates, 58%were resistant to amoxicillin and erythromycin. cephalexin-resistant e.coli in70% of the isolates and gentamycin-resistant klebsiella occurred in 75% of the isolates. the incidence of bsi did not differ significantly from other reported studies.