Relevance of digestive tract colonization in the epidemiology of nosocomial infections due to multiresistant Acinetobacter baumannii

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 329-334

  Corbella, Xavier ^a,b   Pujol, Miquel ^a   Ayats, Josefina ^a   Sendra, Montserrat ^a   Ardanuy, Carmen ^a   Domínguez, M Angeles ^a   Liñares, Josefina ^a   Ariza, Javier ^a   Gudiol, Francesc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; PIPERACILLIN; SULBACTAM; TETRACYCLINE; TICARCILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0029788807     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/23.2.329     Document Type: Article

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