Environmental Drivers of Bacillus-Positive Blood Cultures in a Cancer Hospital, Sapporo, Japan.

ABSTRACT: The Bacillus species is a well-documented causative pathogen of nosocomial bloodstream infection. The present study aimed to identify climatological variables that are associated with Bacillus-positive blood culture in Sapporo, Japan. All cases with Bacillus-positive blood cultures from January 2011 to December 2016 were retrospectively analysed. Climatological data from 2011 to 2016, including daily mean temperature and absolute humidity, were retrieved from the Japan Meteorological Agency. Employing a hazard-based statistical model to describe the non-homogeneous counting process in which temperature and absolute humidity act as explanatory variables, we computed all possible models with variable lengths of time lag. Akaike Information Criterion was computed to ident

SUBMITTER: Fujita T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6210759 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature