Microbiologic diagnosis of blood culture-negative sepsis by hemofiltration

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1075-1077

  Maki, Dennis G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CITROBACTER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDITORIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOFILTRATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEMOFILTRATION; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 1842788760     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000120048.81149.78     Document Type: Editorial

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