Postmortem blood cultures

APMIS

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 76-78

  Schønheyder, Henrik C ^a,b   Henriques, Ulrik ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Bacteraemia; Postmortem blood culture; Quantity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; AUTOPSY; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; SAMPLING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0030834566     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1997.tb00543.x     Document Type: Article

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