Pediatric blood culture: Time to positivity

Turkish Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 251-255

  Kara, Ateş ^a   Kanra, Güler ^a   Cengiz, A Bülent ^a   Apiş, Menekşe ^a   Gür, Deniz ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

BACTEC; Bacteremia; Blood cultures; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHILD; CHILD CARE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KLEBSIELLA; LABORATORY TEST; MICROCOCCUS; PATIENT MONITORING; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS; SALMONELLA; SERRATIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TIME; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 4644233711     PISSN: 00414301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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