Healthcare-associated bacteremia: Stirring the mud

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2685-2686

  Wunderink, Richard G ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic; Bacteremia; Community acquired; Healthcare associated; Immunocompromise; Nosocomial; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTEREMIA; CATHETER INFECTION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LEUKEMIA; NEUTROPENIA; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; PNEUMONIA; TERMINOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748808430     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000240789.93764.0F     Document Type: Editorial

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