Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections: A Syllogism Compounded by a Questionable Dichotomy

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1189-1190

  Kunin, Calvin M ^a,b,c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERIURIA; BACTERIURIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CATHETER ASSOCIATED URINARY TRACT INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; CONDOM CATHETER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; INFECTION CONTROL; MORGANELLA; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS; SUPERINFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; UROSEPSIS; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR;

BACTERIURIA; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 65549145917     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597404     Document Type: Note

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