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Importance of appropriate empirical antibiotic therapy for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia
Author(s) -
Mical Paul,
Galia Kariv,
Elad Goldberg,
Maria Raskin,
Hila Shaked,
Rawi Hazzan,
Zmira Samra,
Dina Paghis,
Jihad Bishara,
Leonard Leibovici
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124
H-Index - 194
eISSN - 1460-2091
pISSN - 0305-7453
DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkq373
Subject(s) - medicine , odds ratio , retrospective cohort study , bacteremia , antibiotics , methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus , confidence interval , staphylococcal infections , cohort study , staphylococcus aureus , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , genetics , bacteria
To document the effects of appropriate and inappropriate empirical antibiotic therapy on mortality in a cohort of patients with bacteraemia due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and to summarize effects with previous studies.

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