Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia after median sternotomy: Clinical utility of blood culture results in the identification of postoperative mediastinitis

Circulation

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-78

  Fowler Jr , Vance G ^a,b   Kaye, Keith S ^a   Simel, David L ^a   Cabell, Christopher H ^a   McClachlan, Douglas ^a   Smith, Peter K ^b   Levin, Scott ^b   Sexton, Daniel J ^a   Reller, L Barth ^a   Corey, G Ralph ^a   Oddone, Eugene Z ^a  

^a DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bypass; Diagnosis; Infection; Surgery

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; AGED; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; NORTH CAROLINA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLE SIZE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STERNUM;

EID: 0037489272     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000079105.65762.DB     Document Type: Article

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