A role for the micro-organism in the outcome from infection? A principle challenged

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2001-2002

  Cohen, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; microbiology; prognosis; sepsis

Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMORBIDITY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MICROORGANISM; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SURVIVAL;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 79961047352     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31821e85b5     Document Type: Editorial

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