Escherichia coli bacteraemia in Canberra: Incidence and clinical features

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 188, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 209-213

  Kennedy, Karina J ^a   Roberts, Jan L ^a   Collignon, Peter J ^a  

^a CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFALOTIN; CEFOTAXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; TIMENTIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTEREMIA; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROSTATE BIOPSY; SEX RATIO; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY; BACTEREMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 42449084245     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01586.x     Document Type: Article

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