Is transesophageal echocardiography dispensable in hospital-acquired staphylococcus aureus bacteremia?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 10-12

  Soriano, Alex ^a   Mensa, Josep ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CATHETER INFECTION; DEFIBRILLATOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMODIALYSIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NOTE; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL BACTEREMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BACTEREMIA; CROSS INFECTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79958810705     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir305     Document Type: Note

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