Bacteremia after spinal cord injury in initial versus subsequent hospitalizations

Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 96-100

  Waites, Ken B ^a,b   Canupp, Kay C ^a   Chen, Yuying ^a   DeVivo, Michael J ^a   Moser, Stephen A ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Hospitalization; Infection; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

COAGULASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARAPLEGIA; PATHOGENESIS; QUADRIPLEGIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RISK; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALABAMA; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARAPLEGIA; PATIENT READMISSION; QUADRIPLEGIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 0035376804     PISSN: 10790268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10790268.2001.11753562     Document Type: Article

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