The clinical significance of positive blood cultures in the 1990s: A prospective comprehensive evaluation of the microbiology, epidemiology, and outcome of bacteremia and fungemia in adults

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 584-602

  Weinstein, Melvin P ^a   Towns, Michael L ^b   Quartey, Seth M ^b   Mirrett, Stanley ^b   Reimer, Larry G ^b   Parmigiani, Giovanni ^b   Barth Relier, L ^b  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGEMIA; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0030945048     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clind/24.4.584     Document Type: Article

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