Clinical features and prognostic factors of anaerobic infections: A 7-year retrospective study

Korean Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-18

  Park, Yoonseon ^a   Choi, Jun Young ^a   Yong, Dongeun ^a   Lee, Kyungwon ^a   Kim, June Myung ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Anaerobic bacteria; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; AGE; AGED; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC INFECTION; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PREVOTELLA; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SHOCK; SOUTH KOREA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ADOLESCENT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KOREA; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64249130651     PISSN: 12263303     EISSN: 20056648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3904/kjim.2009.24.1.13     Document Type: Article

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