Blood culture sampling rates at a German pediatric university hospital and incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease

Infection

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 78-81

  Ruggeberg J U ^a   Ketteler, K ^a   MacKenzie, C R ^a   Von Kries, R ^b   Reinert, R R ^c   Schroten, H ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MEDICAL RECORD; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 18744424653     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-004-3104-2     Document Type: Review

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