Chang Gung medical journal
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This study attempted to determine the clinical manifestations and influential factors affecting the prognosis of patients with community-acquired and nosocomial bacteremia of Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae). ⋯ Patients with community-acquired and nosocomial bacteremia had different types of underlying diseases. Isolates from nosocomial infections were significantly more frequently resistant to aminoglycosides, antipseudomonal penicillin, and all three generations of cephalosporins. In this regard, an aggressive empirical therapeutic approach to infections of K. pneumoniae is suggested.