Urosepsis: Overview of the diagnostic and treatment challenges

Microbiology Spectrum

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Wagenlehner, Florian M E ^a   Pilatz, Adrian ^a   Weidner, Wolfgang ^a   Naber, Kurt G ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR;

COMPLICATION; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMAN; MALE; PROCEDURES; SEPSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MALE; SEPSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 85001740633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21650497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/microbiolspec.UTI-0003-2012     Document Type: Article

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