LightCycler SeptiFast technology in patients with solid malignancies: Clinical utility for rapid etiologic diagnosis of sepsis

Critical Care

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Dubská, Lenka ^a   Vyskočilová, Martina ^a   Minaříková, Dagmar ^a   Jelínek, Petr ^a   Tejkalová, Renata ^b   Valík, Dalibor ^a  

^a MASARYK MEMORIAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^b ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; DNA ISOLATION; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SOLID TUMOR;

EID: 84855823937     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc10595     Document Type: Letter

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