High mortality among patients with positive blood cultures at a Children's Hospital in Tbilisi, Georgia

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 267-272

  Schaffner, Jami ^a   Chochua, Sopio ^a,b   Kourbatova, Ekaterina V ^a   Barragan, Maribel ^a   Wang, Yun F ^a,c   Blumberg, Henry M ^a,c   del Rio, Carlos ^a,c   Walker, H Kenneth ^a   Leonard, Michael K ^a,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Central Children's Hospital of Georgia   (Georgia)

^c GRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood infections; Children; Georgia; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); GRAM NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PSEUDOMONAS; RISK FACTOR; SALMONELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

BACILLI (CLASS); NEGIBACTERIA;

ADOLESCENT; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA; BLOOD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 67649496530     PISSN: 20366590     EISSN: 19722680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.123     Document Type: Article

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