Clinical Consequences of Infection in Patients With Acute Stroke
Open Access
- 1 February 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Stroke
- Vol. 37 (2) , 461-465
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.str.0000199138.73365.b3
Abstract
Background and Purpose— It is unsettled whether stroke-associated infection (SAI) is an independent prognostic factor, and a recent clinical trial failed to show that antibiotic prophylaxis prevent...Keywords
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