Bifidobacterium breve MAK40B22B and Increased Bacteremia Incidence

• Clinical and Bacteriologic Characteristics of Six Cases of Bifidobacterium breve Bacteremia Due to Probiotic Administration in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

  • 2021-06-22
  • Case Report · n = 298
  • Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 41(1)
  • • Yoshie Sakurai
    • Tatsuya Watanabe
    • Yuichiro Miura
    • Toshihiko Uchida
    • Natsumi Suda
    • M. Yoshida
    • Tatsuro Nawa

  • PubMed: 34889871
  • DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000003232

  14 Insights on

  • Increased Bacteremia Incidence

  • Moderate evidence

  The incidence rate of B. breve bacteremia in our hospital was 2% (6/298), higher than reported previously.

  Effect

  Harmful

  Effect size

  Moderate