Clinical characteristics and outcome of elderly patients with community-onset bacteremia

Journal of Infection

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 135-143

  Hernández, Cristina ^a   Fehér, Csaba ^a   Soriano, Alex ^a,b   Marco, Francesc ^a,b   Almela, Manel ^a,b   Cobos Trigueros, Nazaret ^a   De La Calle, Cristina ^a   Morata, Laura ^a   Mensa, Josep ^a,b   Martínez, Jose Antonio ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Community onset bacteremia; Elderly patients; Empirical treatment; Enterobacteriaceae resistant to third generation cephalosporin; Enterococci; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGE; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ONSET BACTEREMIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; NEUTROPENIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SHOCK; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DRUG EFFECTS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84921024175     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: 15322742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2014.09.002     Document Type: Article

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