Epidemiology and significance of coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated in blood cultures from critically ill adult patients

Critical Care and Resuscitation

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 103-107

  Savithri, Mahesh B ^a,b   Iyer, Vikram ^b   Jones, Mark ^a,b   Yarwood, Trent ^a,b   Looke, David ^a,b   Kruger, Peter S ^a,b   Faogali, Joan ^a,b   Venkatesh, Bala ^a,b,c  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c WESLEY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAGULASE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL COUNT; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS INFECTION; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

AUSTRALIA; COAGULASE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 79960617795     PISSN: 14412772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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