Bacteremia and septicemia in diabetic patients in Western Saudi Arabia

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1064-1067

  Qari, Faiza A ^a  

^a KING ABDUL AZIZ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INSULIN; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROORGANISM; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SAUDI ARABIA; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEPTICEMIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; CHILD; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SAUDI ARABIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0242468413     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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