Abstract:
Background The increasing incidence of bloodstream infection of hospitalized patients has aroused great concern of clinical workers.
Objective To investigate the pathogenic profile and antimicrobial resistance in blood stream infections in our center from 2018 to 2020, and provide evidence for the diagnosis and treatment of clinical bloodstream infection.
Methods VITEK 2 Compact bacterial identification system and IVITEK MS mass spectrometry were used for bacterial identification, antimicrobial susceptibility test was carried out by VITEK 2 Compact and analyzed by WHONET 5.6.
Results From 2018 to 2020, a total of 3 574 patients had positive blood culture results. There were 2 324 males and 1 250 females, with an average age of 58.26 years, and 52.86% (1 896/3 574) of whom were over 60 years old. The departments with top three incidences of blood stream infections were emergency department, intensive care unit and oncology department. Patients with positive blood culture in emergency department usually had acute symptoms such as fever or abdominal pain, accompanied by pathological changes of different tissues and organs, and pulmonary infection was common seen. Totally 4 426 non-repetitive pathogenic strains were detected in our study, including Gram-positive bacteria (57.82%), Gram-negative bacteria (38.12%) and fungus (4.07%); and the top five isolated bacteria were coagulase-negative Staphylococci (1 505 strains, 34.00%), E. coli (659 strains, 14.89%), K. pneumoniae (469 strains, 10.60%), E. enterococcus (235 strains, 5.31%) and S. aureus (135 strains, 3.05%). In 2018, 2019, and 2020, the drug resistance rate of E. coli to imipenem was 3.04%, 2.54% and 2.52%, respectively, with a total rate of 2.58%; The resistance rate of K. pneumoniae to imipenem was 40.24%, 33.33%, 57.05%, respectively, with a total rate of 43.71%; The resistance rate of A. baumanni to imipenem was 73.68%, 80.36% and 75.00%, respectively, with a total rate of 76.40%; The resistance rate of P. aeruginosa to imipenem was 18.52%, 28.00% and 39.29%, respectively, with a total rate of 26.17%; The three-year detection rates of Methicillin-resistant S. aureus was 29.63%, 17.39% and 26.47%, respectively, with a total rate of 26.61%.
Conclusion The pathogens of blood stream infections in our hospital are mainly coagulase-negative Staphylococci, E. coli and K. pneumoniae. The detection rates of carbapenems drug-resistant K. pneumoniae and A. baumannii are high, which suggests that close attention should be paid to clinical drug use.