Is the incidence of anaerobic bacteremia decreasing? Analysis of 114,000 blood cultures over a ten-year period

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2432-2434

  Fenner, Lukas ^a   Widmer, Andreas F ^a   Straub, Clarisse ^a   Frei, Reno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CLOSTRIDIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; PORPHYROMONAS; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SWITZERLAND;

BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; POSIBACTERIA;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BLOOD; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 49049109115     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00013-08     Document Type: Article

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