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Is nosocomial Escherichia coli bacteremia a predictive risk factor for mortality?

Felipe F Tuon1, Jaime L Rocha1, Fernanda A Guadagnin1

  • 1Division of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Hospital Universitário Evangélico de Curitiba, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.

The Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
|September 24, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
Antibiotic therapyEscherichia coliMortalityNosocomial bacteremia

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