Diagnostic challenges and opportunities in older adults with infectious diseases

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 973-978

  Van Duin, David ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; PROCALCITONIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERIURIA; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANDIDEMIA; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; PULSE OXIMETRY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL BACTEREMIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; URINARY CATHETER; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; URINE INCONTINENCE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

AGED; BACTEREMIA; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84858147715     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir927     Document Type: Article

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