Comparison of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome between monomicrobial and polymicrobial Pseudomonas aeruginosa nosocomial bloodstream infections

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Marra, Alexandre R ^a,b,c   Bearman, Gonzalo M L ^b   Wenzel, Richard P ^b   Edmond, Michael B ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c A D Williams Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; IMIPENEM;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BURN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOMICROBIAL INFECTION; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMICROBIAL INFECTION; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; APACHE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

APACHE; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 27744489145     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-5-94     Document Type: Article

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