Time to blood culture positivity as a predictor of clinical outcomes and severity in adults with bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia.

Time to blood culture positivity as a predictor of clinical outcomes and severity in adults with bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia.

We aimed to investigate the association between the time to positivity of blood culture (TTP) with clinical outcome and severity of pneumococcal bacteremic pneumonia.Prospective observational study carried out in 278 hospitalized adult CAP patients with positive blood culture for Streptococcus pneum...

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Main Authors: Catia Cillóniz, Adrian Ceccato, Cristina de la Calle, Albert Gabarrús, Carolina Garcia-Vidal, Manel Almela, Alex Soriano, José Antonio Martinez, Francesc Marco, Jordi Vila, Antoni Torres
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5546626?pdf=render

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