Management of bacillus bacteremia: The need for catheter removal

Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 279-283

  Kassar, Rawan ^a   Hachem, Ray ^a   Jiang, Ying ^a   Chaftari, Anne Marie ^a   Raad, Issam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETER REMOVAL; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CHILD; CHILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEUTROPENIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APACHE; BACILLACEAE INFECTIONS; BACILLUS; BACTEREMIA; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVICE REMOVAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VANCOMYCIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349684804     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0b013e3181b7c64a     Document Type: Article

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