Age-related differences in symptoms, diagnosis and prognosis of bacteremia

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wester, Astrid L ^a   Dunlop, Oona ^b   Melby, Kjetil K ^b,c   Dahle, Ulf R ^a   Wyller, Torgeir Bruun ^b,c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Elderly; Mortality; Organ failure; Risk factor; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS;

EID: 84880379101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-346     Document Type: Article

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