Bloodstream infection in heart transplant recipients: 12-year experience at a university hospital in Taiwan

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1362-1367

  Hsu, Ron Bin ^a   Chang, Chung I ^a   Fang, Chi Tai ^a   Chang, Shan Chwen ^a   Wang, Shoei Shen ^a   Chu, Shu Hsun ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bloodstream infection; Heart transplantation; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROBACTER; FEMALE; FUNGUS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TAIWAN; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTEREMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; TAIWAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82655181287     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: 1873734X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2011.02.033     Document Type: Article

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