Molecular identification of bloodstream pathogens in patients presenting to the emergency department with suspected sepsis

Shock

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-30

  Avolio, Manuela ^a   Diamante, Paola ^a   Zamparo, Silvio ^a   Modolo, Maria Luisa ^a   Grosso, Shamanta ^a   Zigante, Paola ^a   Tosoni, Nilla ^a   De Rosa, Rita ^a   Stano, Paola ^a   Camporese, Alessandro ^a  

^a S Maria Degli Angeli Regional Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

bloodstream pathogens; emergency department; Molecular identification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES CAPILLOSUS; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA FERGUSONII; FEMALE; FUNGAL DETECTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORGANELLA MORGANII; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PROVIDENCIA STUARTII; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPSIS; STANDARD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FUNGI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953889323     PISSN: 10732322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SHK.0b013e3181d49299     Document Type: Article

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