Post-hoc analysis of 📷 📷 study in MSSA/MRSA bacteremia:

Persistent fever = indicator for complicated infection

Fever on Day 4️⃣: aOR (3.7 (95% CI: 1.58-8.67)) mortality
Fever on Day 7️⃣: aOR: (8.78 (95% CI: 2.78-27.7)

🚫 assn between ⬆️CRP/WBC and mortality

#IDSky

https://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofaf063/7990839