Nosocomial bacteremia: Clinical significance of a single blood culture positive for coagulase-negative staphylococci

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 697-702

  Favre, Benoît ^a   Hugonnet, Stéphane ^a   Correa, Luci ^a,b   Sax, Hugo ^a   Rohner, Peter ^a   Pittet, Didier ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; COAGULASE; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 23844485632     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502605     Document Type: Article

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