Study traces hospital-acquired bloodstream infections to patients' own bodies
October 15, 2018 , Stanford University Medical Center
The most common source of a bloodstream infection acquired during a hospital stay is not a nurse's or doctor's dirty hands, or another patient's sneeze or visitor's cough, but the patient's own gut, Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have found.
Most patients who spend longer than a few days in a hospital acquire infections. In particular, upward of 40 percent of immunocompromised patients—a category that includes about 23,000 annual recipients of bone-marrow transplants—develop bloodstream infections during their two- to six-week hospital stays. These patients are at risk for repeated rounds of infection.
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