Abstract
197 episodes of bacteremia in 163 patients were observed from November 1975 to December 1982. These patients consisted of 44 with leukemia, 20 with gastric cancer, 18 with malignant lymphoma, 67 with other malignancy and 14 patients with no malignancy. 138 patients were dead until June 1983 and 43 cases in these patients died within 3 days from the episode of bacteremia. The causative organisms were composed of 28 strains of gram-positive cocci, 11 of gram-positive rods, 119 of gram-negative rods, 22 of fungi and 17 of polymicrobic. In 1982 Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia increased in number.225 patients were treated with the continiuous intravascular drip injection therapy. And after the therapy cultures of 271 tips of the intravascular catheter were made, as the results organisms grew from the 132 tips. These organisms were composed of 36 strains of gram-positive cocci, 3 of gram-positive rods, 53 of gram-negative rods, 19 fungi and 21 polymicrobial. The largest group of these organisms was the glucose non-fermentative gram-negative rods, and next was S. epidermidis.In 6 episodes of bacteremia due to Candida albicans, the similar organism grew by the culture of the tips.
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