Growing Antibiotic Resistance in Fatal Cases of XXXX in the Elderly.

@entity1 @entity2261 @entity7048 @entity20657 @entity3615 @entity55 @entity2929 @entity7120 @entity5553 @entity1174 @entity3400 @entity3402
UNASSIGNED: Older @entity1 are often especially susceptible to @entity55 and bacteria may develop resistance to antibiotics quicker in the elderly, whose immune systems gradually diminish. This study analyses, retrospectively, resistance to antibiotics in high-risk elderly @entity1 with fatal @entity55 . Records of all @entity1 aged over 65 who did not survive a bout with @entity55 were gathered from the records of the Department of Pneumology of @entity20657 Clinic in Wuppertal, Germany from the period of 2004-2014. Susceptibility testing was executed for the study population, whose @entity55 was triggered by various kinds of bacteria. We detected 936 @entity55 @entity1 of the overall mean age of 68.0        13.6  years, with the following @entity55 types: 461 (49.3  %) community-acquired, 354 (37.8  %) nosocomial-acquired, and 121 (12.9  %) @entity1174 . There were 631 (67.4  %) males and 305 (32.6  %) females there. We identified 672 (71.8  %) @entity1 who had a high risk for @entity55 , especially @entity3615 (p   <   0.0001). The elderly @entity1 had a higher risk of dying from @entity55 (2.9 odds ratio, 95  % confidence interval 1.8-4.6; p   <   0.0001); of the 185 @entity55 -related deaths, 163 (88.1  %) were in the elderly. In those with @entity3615 , a high antibiotic resistance rate was found for @entity3400 - @entity7120 (p   =   0.044), @entity2261 (p   =   0.026), @entity7048 (p   =   0.043), @entity5553 (p   =   0.018), @entity2929 (p   =   0.004), and @entity3402 (p   =   0.025). We conclude that elderly @entity1 with @entity3615 show resistance to common antibiotics. However, no significant antibiotic resistance could be ascribed for other types of @entity55 in these @entity1 .
