The possible significance of Clostridium spp. in blood cultures

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1006-1012

  Benjamin, B ^a   Kan, M ^a   Schwartz, D ^a   Siegman Igra, Y ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bacteraemia; Blood cultures; Clostridium spp.; Contamination; Pseudobacteraemia; Significance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM SEPTICUM; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOINFECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CLOSTRIDIUM;

EID: 33748323063     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2006.01464.x     Document Type: Article

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