Anaerobic bacteremia: The yield of positive anaerobic blood cultures: Patient characteristics and potential risk factors

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 293-297

  Saito, Takashi ^a,f   Senda, Kazuyoshi ^a   Takakura, Shunji ^a   Fujihara, Naoko ^a   Kudo, Toyoichiro ^a   Iinuma, Yoshitsugu ^a,c   Fujita, Naohisa ^b   Komori, Toshiaki ^b   Baba, Naoshi ^c   Horii, Toshinobu ^d   Matsuoka, Kimiko ^e   Tanimoto, Mitsune ^f   Ichiyama, Satoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e OSAKA GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^f OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaerobic bacteremia; Anaerobic blood culture bottle

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; AGED; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES; BLOOD CULTURE; CANCER PATIENT; CHILD; CLOSTRIDIUM; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PORPHYROMONAS; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURGICAL PATIENT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; CLOSTRIDIUM; FUSOBACTERIUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PORPHYROMONAS; POSIBACTERIA; PREVOTELLA; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0037253746     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2003.046     Document Type: Article

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