Clinical characteristics of nosocomial and community-acquired extraintestinal infections caused by Hafnia alvei

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 11-12, 2005, Pages 870-872

  Rodriguez Guardado A ^a   Boga, J A ^a   De Diego, I ^a   Ordas J ^a   Alvarez M E ^a   Perez F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALOTIN; CEFOXITIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HAFNIA ALVEI; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STUDENT T TEST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HAFNIA ALVEI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPAIN;

EID: 30544443874     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540500333699     Document Type: Article

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