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Table 4 Characteristics, diagnoses, microbiological findings and treatment among patients who died during hospitalisation in a cohort of 100 patients admitted with fever to a tertiary care hospital in South India (n = 7)

From: Fever in the tropics: aetiology and case-fatality - a prospective observational study in a tertiary care hospital in South India

P

Fever (days)

Final diagnosis

Microbiological findings

Anti-microbial treatment1

LOS

     

(days)

1

105

Spleen abscess

Blood culture: Diphteroides3

Meropenem

22

2

90

LMD2

Sputum: Acinetobacter anitratus

Metronidazol, ampicillin, cloxacillin, gentamycin

20

   

Urine: E-coli

  

3

5

Sepsis

Sputum: MRSA, enterobacteriaceae

Imipenem, penicillin, ciprofloxacin, metronidazol

14

Pseudomonas spp

Blood: Klebsiella

4

15

Pulmonary infection and sepsis

None

Ampicillin

3

5

30

Endocarditis and sepsis

Blood: Staphylococcus aureus

Penicillin G, cloxacillin

1

6

3

Pulmonary infection and sepsis

Sputum and CSF: Fungus

Penicillin G

16

7

3

Pulmonary infection and sepsis

Blood: Streptococcus viridans

Penicillin G, doxycyclin, cefotaxime

7

  1. Abbreviations: P patient, Neg. negative, LMD lymphomalignant disorder, UTI urinary tract infection, MRSA methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, LOS length of stay, SLE systemic lupus erythematosus.
  2. 1Antibiotics given as combination treatment or successively.
  3. 2Hairy cell leukaemia found by bone marrow histology.
  4. 3Probably due to contamination of sample from skin.