Outcome of Escherichia coli and/or Klebsiella bloodstream infection in children with central venous catheters

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1308-1310

  Buckley, Jessica ^a   Coffin, Susan E ^a   Lautenbach, Ebbing ^a   Prasad, Priya ^a   Chu, Jaclyn ^a   Goyal, Monika ^a   Zaoutis, Theoklis E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETER REMOVAL; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEATH; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; KLEBSIELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; MALE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION, TOTAL; RECURRENCE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 35348980666     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/521659     Document Type: Article

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