Anaerobic bacteraemia in patients admitted to Auckland City Hospital: Its clinical significance

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 1265, 2007, Pages

  Muttaiyah, Sharmini ^a   Paviour, Sue ^a   Buckwell, Leanne ^a   Roberts, Sally A ^a  

^a AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFEPIME; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ADULT; AGED; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MONOTHERAPY; MOUTH INFECTION; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NEUTROPENIA; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PATIENT INFORMATION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PHARYNGITIS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; BACTEROIDES; CLOSTRIDIUM; EQUIPMENT; FUSOBACTERIUM; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPTOTRICHIA; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVOTELLA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA, AEROBIC; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BACTEROIDES; CLOSTRIDIUM; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEPTOTRICHIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PREVOTELLA; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 37249000815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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