Relevance of the number of positive bottles in determining clinical significance of coagulase-negative staphylococci in blood cultures

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 3279-3281

  Mirrett, S ^a   Weinstein, M P ^a   Reimer, L G ^a   Wilson, M L ^a   Reller, L B ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; COAGULASE; CULTURE MEDIA; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 0034823808     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.9.3279-3281.2001     Document Type: Article

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