New rapid methods cannot replace the current method to diagnose bloodstream infections

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue PART 5, 2014, Pages 767-769

  Lupetti, Antonella ^a   Barnini, Simona ^a   Dodi, Carlotta ^a,d   Menconi, Mariacristina ^b   Favre, Claudio ^b   Giagnoni, Marco ^b   Florio, Walter ^a   Nibbering, Peter H ^c   Campa, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d Oncological Department   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFEPIME; CEFIXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DALFOPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; MEZLOCILLIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PIPERACILLIN; QUINUPRISTIN; RIFAMPICIN; SULBACTAM; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TAZOBACTAM; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; INOCULATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; TEMPERATURE; TRICHOSPORON ASAHII;

BACTERIA; BLOOD; FUNGI; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; SEPSIS;

EID: 84899152099     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.069161-0     Document Type: Letter

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