Blood cultures in the emergency department;Hemocultivos en el servicio de urgencias

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 135-139

  Cisneros Herreros, José Miguel ^a   Sánchez González, Manuela ^a   Prados Blanco, M Trinidad ^a   Llanos Rodríguez, Cristina ^a   Vigil Martín, Eduardo ^a   Soto Espinosa De Los Monteros, Basilio ^a   Pachón Díaz, Jerónimo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Blood cultures; Emergency department

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; CITROBACTER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY WARD; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 16344384218     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13072162     Document Type: Article

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