Time to positivity in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: Possible correlation with the source and outcome of infection

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 594-598

  Khatib, Riad ^a,b   Riederer, Kathleen ^a   Saeed, Sajjad ^a   Johnson, Leonard B ^a,b   Fakih, Mohamad G ^a,b   Sharma, Mamta ^a   Tabriz, M Shamse ^a   Khosrovaneh, Amir ^a  

^a ST JOHN HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 23844450650     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/432472     Document Type: Article

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