Prognostic value of quantitative blood cultures for the outcome of central venous catheters in children

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 680-682

  Germanakis, John ^a   Stiakaki, Eftichia ^a   Galanakis, Emmanouil ^a   Christidou, Athanasia ^a   Neonakis, John ^a   Dimitriou, Helen ^a   Tselentis, Yiannis ^a   Kalmanti, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFTAZIDIME;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANDIDA; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KLEBSIELLA; MALE; OCHROBACTRUM; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TIME;

BACTEREMIA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036384997     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540210147570     Document Type: Article

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