Unique blood culture for diagnosis of bloodstream infections in emergency departments: A prospective multicentre study

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2014, Pages O920-O927

  Dargere S ^a   Parienti, J J ^a,b   Roupie, E ^a   Gancel, P E ^a   Wiel, E ^c   Smaiti, N ^c   Loiez, C ^c   Joly, L M ^d   Lemee L ^d   Pestel Caron, M ^d   du Cheyron, D ^a   Verdon, R ^a   Leclercq, R ^a,b   Cattoir, V ^a,b   Daubin, Cédric ^e   Delente, Géraldine ^e   Le Roux, Catherine ^e   Masson, Romain ^e   Ochoa, William ^e   Sauneuf, Bertrand ^e   Seguin, Amélie ^e   Terzi, Nicolas ^e   Valette, Xavier ^e   Brulin Lemanski, Claire ^e   Courcol, René ^e   Smith, Grégoire ^e   Williatte, Pierre ^e   Alfonsi, Maud ^e   Lvovschi, Virginie ^e   Peschanski, Nicolas ^e   more..

^a CAEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^c LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^e NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Bacteraemia; Blood contamination; Blood cultures; Bloodstream infection

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; AGED; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROCOCCUS; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ADOLESCENT; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVALUATION STUDY; FRANCE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FRANCE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84917677493     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12656     Document Type: Article

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