Blood culture results during the period 1995-2002 in a Greek tertiary care hospital

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 667-670

  Hadziyannis, A S ^a   Stephanou, I ^a   Dimarogona, K ^a   Pantazatou, A ^a   Fourkas, D ^a   Filiagouridis, D ^a   Avlami, A ^a  

^a LAIKO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blood cultures; Coagulase negative staphylococci; Enterococci; Escherichia coli; Klebsiella; Staphylococci

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GREECE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; MONITOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 4043154189     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2004.00916.x     Document Type: Article

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