Optimal duration of antimicrobial therapy for uncomplicated Gram-negative bloodstream infections

Infection

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 613-620

  Nelson, Avery N ^a   Justo, Julie Ann ^b,c   Bookstaver, P Brandon ^b,c   Kohn, Joseph ^c   Albrecht, Helmut ^a,d   Al Hasan, Majdi N ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Palmetto Health Richland   (United States)

^d Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibacterial agents; Antibiotics; Bacteremia; Enterobacteriaceae; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT DURATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; BACTEREMIA; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SOUTH CAROLINA; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT FAILURE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH CAROLINA; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 85018761547     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: 14390973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-017-1020-5     Document Type: Article

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