Vancomycin-resistant enterococci: The 'superbug' scourge that's coming your way

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 60-71

  Hagman, Heidi M ^b   Strausbaugh, Larry J ^a  

^a PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; DRUG USE; ENTEROCOCCUS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 0029946216     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00325481.1996.11946116     Document Type: Article

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