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2018-11-14Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.25646/5832
The importance of adjusting for enterococcus species when assessing the burden of vancomycin resistance: a cohort study including over 1000 cases of enterococcal bloodstream infections
dc.contributor.authorKramer, Tobias Siegfried
dc.contributor.authorRemschmidt, Cornelius
dc.contributor.authorWerner, Sven
dc.contributor.authorBehnke, Michael
dc.contributor.authorSchwab, Frank
dc.contributor.authorWerner, Guido
dc.contributor.authorGastmeier, Petra
dc.contributor.authorLeistner, Rasmus
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-17T10:57:29Z
dc.date.available2018-12-17T10:57:29Z
dc.date.issued2018-11-14none
dc.identifier.other10.1186/s13756-018-0419-9
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.rki.de/176904/5881
dc.description.abstractBackground: Infections caused by vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are on the rise worldwide. Few studies have tried to estimate the mortality burden as well as the financial burden of those infections and found that VRE are associated with increased mortality and higher hospital costs. However, it is unclear whether these worse outcomes are attributable to vancomycin resistance only or whether the enterococcal species (Enterococcus faecium or Enterococcus faecalis) play an important role. We therefore aimed to determine the burden of enterococci infections attributable to vancomycin resistance and pathogen species (E. faecium and E. faecalis) in cases of bloodstream infection (BSI). Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study on patients with BSI caused by Enterococcus faecium or Enterococcus faecalis between 2008 and 2015 in three tertiary care hospitals. Data was collected on true hospital costs (in €), length of stay (LOS), basic demographic parameters, and underlying diseases including the results of the Charlson comorbidity index (CCI). We used univariate and multivariable regression analyses to compare risk factors for in-hospital mortality and length of stay (i) between vancomycin-susceptible E. faecium- (VSEm) and vancomycin-susceptible E. faecalis- (VSEf) cases and (ii) between vancomycin-susceptible E. faecium- (VSEm) and vancomycin-resistant E. faecium-cases (VREm). We calculated total hospital costs for VSEm, VSEf and VREm. Results: Overall, we identified 1160 consecutive cases of BSI caused by enterococci: 596 (51.4%) cases of E. faecium BSI and 564 (48.6%) cases of E. faecalis BSI. 103 cases of E. faecium BSI (17.3%) and 1 case of E. faecalis BSI (0.2%) were infected by vancomycin-resistant isolates. Multivariable analyses revealed (i) that in addition to different underlying diseases E. faecium was an independent risk factor for in-hospital mortality and prolonged hospital stay and (ii) that vancomycin-resistance did not further increase the risk for the described outcomes among E. faecium-isolates. However, the overall hospital costs were significantly higher in VREm-BSI cases as compared to VSEm- and VSEf-BSI cases (80,465€ vs. 51,365€ vs. 31,122€ p < 0.001). Conclusion: Our data indicates that in-hospital mortality and infection-attributed hospital stay in enterococci BSI might rather be influenced by Enterococcus species and underlying diseases than by vancomycin resistance. Therefore, future studies should consider adjusting for Enterococcus species in addition to vancomycin resistance in order to provide a conservative estimate for the burden of VRE infections.eng
dc.language.isoengnone
dc.publisherRobert Koch-Institut
dc.rights(CC BY 3.0 DE) Namensnennung 3.0 Deutschlandger
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/
dc.subjectBloodstream infectioneng
dc.subjectVancomycin-resistant enterococcieng
dc.subjectEnterococcus faeciumeng
dc.subject.ddc610 Medizin und Gesundheitnone
dc.titleThe importance of adjusting for enterococcus species when assessing the burden of vancomycin resistance: a cohort study including over 1000 cases of enterococcal bloodstream infectionsnone
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:kobv:0257-176904/5881-9
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25646/5832
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionnone
local.edoc.container-titleAntimicrobial Resistance & Infection Controlnone
local.edoc.type-nameZeitschriftenartikel
local.edoc.container-typeperiodical
local.edoc.container-type-nameZeitschrift
local.edoc.container-urlhttps://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13756-018-0419-9none
local.edoc.container-publisher-nameBioMedCentralnone
local.edoc.container-volume7none
local.edoc.container-issue133none
local.edoc.container-reportyear2018none
local.edoc.container-firstpage1none
local.edoc.container-lastpage9none
local.edoc.rki-departmentInfektionskrankheitennone
dc.description.versionPeer Reviewednone

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