Is anaerobic blood culture necessary? if so, who needs it?

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 336, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 58-63

  Iwata, Kentaro ^a   Takahashi, Miwa ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAMEDA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaerobes; Bacteremia; Blood culture

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAEROBE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MORTALITY; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEDICAL AUDIT; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 51349169765     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e31815dca24     Document Type: Article

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