The role of anaerobic bacteria in bacteremia

Anaerobe

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 183-189

  Brook, Itzhak ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaerobes; Bacteremia; Bacteroides fragilis; Clostridium spp.; Peptostreptococcus

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE INHIBITOR; CARBAPENEM; CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AMNIONITIS; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTEREMIA; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLOSTRIDIUM; DECUBITUS; DENTAL SURGERY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; DYSTOCIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FETUS DISTRESS; FUSOBACTERIUM; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIXED INFECTION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SPLENECTOMY; COMPLICATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; RISK FACTORS;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CLOSTRIDIUM; FUSOBACTERIUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 77953233080     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2009.12.001     Document Type: Review

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