Bloodstream infection: Differences between young-old, old, and old-old patients

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1667-1673

  Gavazzi, Gaetan ^a,b,c   Mallaret, Marie Reine ^a,b   Couturier, Pascal ^a,b   Iffenecker, Anne ^a,b   Franco, Alain ^a,b  

^a Albert Michallon ^*  (France)

^b GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Epidemiology; Microbiology; Older people; Outcome

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANCER PATIENT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL PATIENT;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0036800332     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2002.50458.x     Document Type: Article

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