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Volume 20, Number 7—July 2014
Letter

Carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae and Hematologic Malignancies

Livio PaganoComments to Author , Morena Caira, Enrico Maria Trecarichi, Teresa Spanu, Roberta Di Blasi, Simona Sica, Maurizio Sanguinetti, and Mario Tumbarello
Author affiliations: Author affiliation: Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

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Table

Prevalence and attributable mortality rate of BSI, Rome, Italy, 2009–2012*

Year


Any gram-negative bacteria



Non-KPC–producing K. pneumoniae


KPC-producing K. pneumoniae


BSI, no.


Deaths, no. (%)


BSI, no.


Deaths, no. (%)



BSI, no.


Deaths, no. (%)


2009

30

5 (16.6)

1

0

0

0

2010

39

7 (17.9)

2

0

1

1 (100)

2011

41

9 (24.3)

5

1 (20)

13

7 (53.8)

2012

37

11 (29.7)

4

1 (25)

12

7 (58.3)

Total


147


32 (21.7)



12


2 (16.6)



26


15 (57.6)


*BSI, bloodstream infections; KPC, Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase.

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