Determining the clinical significance of coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from blood cultures

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 559-566

  Beekmann, Susan E ^a,b   Diekema, Daniel J ^a   Doern, Gary V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ALGORITHM; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; COAGULASE; CROSS INFECTION; DECISION TREES; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEVER; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; IOWA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 21244487497     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502584     Document Type: Review

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