Clinical experience with Staphylococcus lugdunensis bacteremia: A retrospective analysis

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-21

  Ebright, John R ^a   Penugonda, Neelima ^a   Brown, William ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFALOTIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; VANCOMYCIN;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0842281442     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2003.08.008     Document Type: Article

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