Bacteremia due to Acinetobacter baumannii: Epidemiology, clinical findings, and prognostic features

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1026-1032

  Cisneros, José M ^a   Reyes, María J ^b   Pachón, Jerónimo ^b   Becerril, Berta ^b   Caballero, Francisco J ^b   García Garmendía, José L ^b   Ortiz, Carlos ^b   Cobacho, Adelaido R ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; IMIPENEM; SULBACTAM;

ACINETOBACTER; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPAIN; SURGICAL WOUND;

EID: 0029747205     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/22.6.1026     Document Type: Article

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