Nosocomial Bloodstream Infection and Clinical Sepsis

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 76-81

  Hugonnet, Stéphane ^a   Sax, Hugo ^a   Eggimann, Philippe ^a   Chevrolet, Jean Claude ^a   Pittet, Didier ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DEVICE INFECTION; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS; SEPSIS; SEPTICEMIA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0347991892     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1001.030407     Document Type: Article

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