Open AccessUsing the rate of bacterial clearance determined by real-time polymerase chain reaction as a timely surrogate marker to evaluate the appropriateness of antibiotic usage in critical patients with Acinetobacter baumannii bacteremia
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
critical care medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.002
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1530-0293
pISSN - 0090-3493
DOI - 10.1097/ccm.0b013e31826c1acc
Subject(s) - medicine , acinetobacter baumannii , surrogate endpoint , bacteremia , polymerase chain reaction , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , intensive care medicine , bacteria , genetics , gene , pseudomonas aeruginosa , biology