Aminoglycoside resistance in gram-negative bacilli during increased amikacin use. Comparison of experience in 14 United States hospitals with experience in the Minneapolis Veterans Administration Medical Center

The American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 1 SUPPL. 1, 1985, Pages 1-7

  Gerding, Dale N ^a   Larson, Tom A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; GENTAMICIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; DRUG THERAPY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KLEBSIELLA; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA; THERAPY;

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANTIBIOTICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG UTILIZATION; GENTAMICINS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMAN; KANAMYCIN; MINNESOTA; TIME FACTORS; TOBRAMYCIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0022387510     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0002-9343(85)90184-6     Document Type: Article

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