Non-life-threatening sepsis: Report of two cases

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 327, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 275-277

  Montalto, Massimo ^a,b   Izzi, Donatello ^a   La Regina, Micaela ^a   Nucera, Gabriella ^a   Manna, Raffaele ^a   Gasbarrini, Giovanni ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Gastrointestinal neoplasm; Streptococcus bovis sepsis

Indexed keywords

PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; THIAMAZOLE;

AGED; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CANCER; DIFFUSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTHYROIDISM; INTESTINE; LETHALITY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SEPSIS; STOMACH CARCINOMA; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2442699302     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-200405000-00028     Document Type: Article

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