Secular trends in mortality associated with bloodstream infections in 4268 patients hospitalized in a cancer referral center between 1975 and 1989

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 160-164

  Andremont, Antoine ^a,b   Lancar, Rémi ^a   Lê, Ngoc An ^a,b   Hattchouel, Jean Marc ^a   Baron, Sophie ^a,b   Tavakoli, Tahereh ^a   Daniel, Marie Françoise ^a,b   Tancrède, Cyrille ^a   Lê, Monique G ^a  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Cancer; Epidemiology; Mortality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000230659     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1996.tb00547.x     Document Type: Article

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