Gram-negative versus Gram-positive bacteremia: What is more alarmin(g)?

Critical Care

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Alexandraki, Irene ^a   Palacio, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OBSERVATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEPTIC SHOCK; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; GRAM NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SEPSIS;

BACTEREMIA; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; GRAM-NEGATIVE AEROBIC BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTERLEUKIN-6; SEPSIS;

EID: 79952114531     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc9013     Document Type: Note

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