Time to positivity in blood cultures of adults with Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteremia

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Peralta, Galo ^a   Rodríguez Lera, María José ^a   Garrido, Jose Carlos ^a   Ansorena, Luis ^a   Roiz, María Pía ^a  

^a HOSPITAL SIERRALLANA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN G; SULTAMICILLIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; NONHUMAN; PROGNOSIS; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SERODIAGNOSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MIDDLE AGED; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745090936     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-6-79     Document Type: Article

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