Burden of community-onset bloodstream infection: A population-based assessment

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1037-1042

  Laupland, Kevin B ^a,b,c   Gregson, D B ^a,b,c   Flemons, W W ^a,d   Hawkins, D ^a,d   Ross, T ^b   Church, D L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c CALGARY LABORATORY SERVICES   (Canada)

^d Calgary Laboratory Services ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMERGENCY CARE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK REDUCTION; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; AGE; BACTEREMIA; CANADA; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; HEALTH SURVEY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALBERTA; BACTEREMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 34748886076     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268806007631     Document Type: Article

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