Investigation of the risk factors of anaerobic bacteremia in a case-control study

摘要

Background: Many case series studies have reported risk factors of infection with anaerobic bacteria, but few factor analysis studies have been conducted.Objective: We conducted a case-control study to identify the risk factors of anaerobic bacteremia.Methods: We compared a number of characteristics of patients with anaerobic bacteremia with those with aerobic bacteremia. Clinical information for 71patients of anaerobic bacteremia was collected from January 1999 to December 2012 in Aichi Medical University Hospital. For each case, we identified up to four controls matched by the time of the positive blood culture.