Stable incidence and continued improvement in short term mortality of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia between 1995 and 2008

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mejer, Niels ^a,b   Westh, Henrik ^a,b   Schønheyder, Henrik C ^c   Jensen, Allan G ^d,e   Larsen, Anders R ^d   Skov, Robert ^d   Benfield, Thomas ^a,b  

^a HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^e PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Bacteraemia; Charlson comorbidity index; Comorbidity; Epidemiology; Incidence; Mortality; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; STAPHYLOCOCCAL BACTEREMIA; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867441574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-260     Document Type: Article

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