International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents
Volume 25, Issue 5 , Pages 398-403 , May 2005

Optimization of empirical antibiotic selection for suspected Gram-negative bacteraemia in the emergency department

  • Shmuel Benenson

      Affiliations

    • Infectious Diseases Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, P.O. Box 3235, Jerusalem 91031, Affiliated with the Ben-Gurion Faculty of Medicine, Be’er-Sheva, Israel
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  • Amos M. Yinnon

      Affiliations

    • Infectious Diseases Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, P.O. Box 3235, Jerusalem 91031, Affiliated with the Ben-Gurion Faculty of Medicine, Be’er-Sheva, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +972 2 655 5076; fax: +972 2 666 6840.
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  • Yechiel Schlesinger

      Affiliations

    • Infectious Diseases Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, P.O. Box 3235, Jerusalem 91031, Affiliated with the Ben-Gurion Faculty of Medicine, Be’er-Sheva, Israel
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  • Bernard Rudensky

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Affiliated with the Ben-Gurion Faculty of Medicine, Be’er-Sheva, Israel
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  • David Raveh

      Affiliations

    • Infectious Diseases Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, P.O. Box 3235, Jerusalem 91031, Affiliated with the Ben-Gurion Faculty of Medicine, Be’er-Sheva, Israel

Received 2 November 2004 ,Accepted 29 January 2005.

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☆ This work was presented in part at the 13th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), May 10–13, 2003, Glasgow, UK.

PII: S0924-8579(05)00053-1

doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2005.01.019

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents
Volume 25, Issue 5 , Pages 398-403 , May 2005

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