Population-based laboratory assessment of the burden of community-onset bloodstream infection in Victoria, Canada

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 174-180

  Laupland, K B ^a,b   Kibsey, P C ^c   Gregson, D B ^a,b   Galbraith, J C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c ROYAL JUBILEE HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bloodstream infections; epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANADA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATALITY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SEX RATIO; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870952639     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268812000428     Document Type: Article

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