Increasing incidence but decreasing in-hospital mortality of adult Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia between 1981 and 2000

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 257-263

  Benfield, T ^a,b   Espersen, F ^c   Frimodt Moller N ^c   Jensen, A G ^c   Larsen, A R ^c   Pallesen, L V ^c   Skov, R ^c   Westh, H ^b   Skinhoj P ^a  

^a Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^b HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bacteraemia; Epidemiology; Incidence; Mortality; Outcome; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DENMARK; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 34247245318     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2006.01589.x     Document Type: Article

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