Pneumococcal bacteraemia: Clinical and microbiological epidemiology in Dundee, Scotland

Journal of Infection

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 12-18

  Maddox, Jamie M ^a   Winter, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteraemia; Mortality; Pneumococcus; Predictors; Resistance; Serotype; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFUROXIME; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN G; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; UREA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BREATHING RATE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORTALITY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEROTYPE; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED KINGDOM; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0038495668     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-4453(03)00031-8     Document Type: Article

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