The positive predictive value of isolating coagulase-negative staphylococci from blood cultures

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 14-20

  Herwaldt, Loreen A ^c   Geiss, Magdalena ^a   Kao, Chi ^b   Pfaller, Michael A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Human Population Laboratory   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 0030019030     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/22.1.14     Document Type: Article

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