Influence of diabetes mellitus and glycaemic control on the characteristics and outcome of common infections

Diabetic Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 457-463

  Leibovici, L ^a,b   Yehezkelli, Y ^a,b   Porter, A ^a,b   Regev, A ^a,b   Krauze, I ^a,b   Harell, D ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Glycaemic control Infection; Klebsiella sp.; Outcome; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; KLEBSIELLA; MALE; MORTALITY; OSTEOMYELITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; OSTEOMYELITIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030000987     PISSN: 07423071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9136(199605)13:5<457::AID-DIA83>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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