Matched case-control analysis of polymicrobial bloodstream infection in a neonatal intensive care unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 914-920

  Bizzarro, Matthew J ^a   Dembry, Louise Marie ^a,b   Baltimore, Robert S ^a,b   Gallagher, Patrick G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BODY WEIGHT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFECTION; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

BACTEREMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; FUNGI; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 53549117438     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/591323     Document Type: Article

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