Obesity and smoking are factors associated with poor prognosis in patients with bacteraemia
Open Access
- 9 March 2007
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 7 (1) , 13
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-7-13
Abstract
Bacteraemia is still a major cause of case fatality in all age groups. Our aim was to identify the major underlying conditions constituting risk factors for case fatality in bacteraemia patients.Keywords
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