Gram-Positive Bloodstream Infections in Liver Transplant Recipients: Incidence, Risk Factors, and Impact on Survival

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1947-1949

  Bedini, A ^a   Codeluppi, M ^a   Cocchi, S ^a   Guaraldi, G ^a   Di Benedetto, F ^a   Venturelli, C ^b   Masetti, M ^a   Prati, F ^a   Mussini, C ^a   Borghi, V ^a   Girardis, M ^a   Gerunda, G E ^a   Rumpianesi, F ^b   Esposito, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CYCLOSPORIN A; GENTAMICIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CADAVER DONOR; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS AVIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFECTION; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547579085     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.05.055     Document Type: Article

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