Microbial infection and antibiotic resistance patterns among Jordanian intensive care patients

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 515-520

  Shehabi, Asem A ^a   Baadran, Izdiad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008913706     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. New HC. Infection problems for the 1990's - Do we have an answer? Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases, 1993, Supplementum 91:7-13.
2. Verbist L. Epidemiology and sensitivity of 8625 ICU hematology/oncology bacterial isolates in Europe. Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases, 1993, Supplementum 91:14-24.
3. Emori TG, Gaynes RP. An overview of nosocomial infection, including the role of the microbiology laboratory. Clinical microbiology reviews, 1993, 6(4): 428-42.
4. George DL. Epidemiology of nosocomial ventilator-associated pneumonia. Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 1993, 14(3):163-9.
5. Horn TC et al. Nosocomial infections in surgical patients in the United States, January 1986-June 1992. Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 1993, 14(2):73-80.
6. Weinstein RA. Epidemiology and control of nosocomial infections in adult intensive care units. American journal of medicine, 1991, 91 (suppl 3B): 179S-84S.
7. Ehrenkranz NJ. Antimicrobial prophylaxis in surgery: mechanisms, misconceptions, and mischief. Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 1993, 14(2): 99-106.
8. Daschner FD et al. Nosocomial infections in intensive care wards: a multicenter prospective study. Intensive care medicine, 1982, 8(1):5-9.
9. Murray RP et al., eds. Manual of clinical microbiology, 6th ed. Washington, DC, American Society for Microbiology, 1995.
10. Approved standards. Approved standard M7-A2. Methods for dilution: antimicrobial susceptibility test for bacteria that grow aerobically, 2nd ed. Villanova, PA, USA National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards, 1990.
11. Verhoef J, Verhage EAE, Visser MR. A decade of experience with selective decontamination of the digestive tract as prophylaxis for infections in patients in the intensive care unit: what have we learned? Clinical infectious diseases, 1993, 17:1047-54.
12. Goldmann DA, Pier GB. Pathogenesis of infections related to intravascular catheterization. Clinical microbiology reviews, 1993, 6(2):176-92.
13. Shehabi AA, Zubi J, Za'balawi G. Emergence of multiple drug resistance among salmonella species in Jordan. European journal of clinical microbiology, 1983, 14(4):351-4.
14. Ballow CH, Schentag JH. Trends in antibiotic utilization and bacterial resistance: report of the national nosocomial resistance surveillance group. Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease, 1992, 15(suppl 2):375S-425S.
15. Pierson CL, Friedman BA. Comparison of susceptibility to beta-lactam antimicrobial agents among bacteria isolated from intensive care units. Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease, 1992, 15 (suppl 2):19S-30S.
16. Sader HS et al. Epidemiologic typing of multiply drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from an outbreak in an intensive care unit. Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease, 1993, 17:13-18.