Bifidobacterium Species Bacteremia: Risk Factors in Adults and Infants

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 482-484

  Weber, Emmanuelle ^a   Reynaud, Quitterie ^a   Suy, Florence ^b   Gagneux Brunon, Amandine ^a,c   Carricajo, Anne ^c,d   Guillot, Aline ^e   Botelho Nevers, Elisabeth ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

^b MIIT Médical   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d University Hospital   (France)

^e Institut Cancérologique de la Loire   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT DISEASE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM DENTIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ERIKSONII; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; BLOOD CULTURE; HUMAN; INFANT DISEASE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIFIDOBACTERIALES INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTEREMIA; BIFIDOBACTERIALES INFECTIONS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 84938581406     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ347     Document Type: Letter

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