The intensive care unit: The hottest zone

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 319-323

  Goetz, Angella ^a   Yu, Victor L ^a,b  

^a VA Healthcare VISN 4   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTACID AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; METICILLIN; SUCRALFATE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROCOCCUS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; VENTILATOR;

EID: 0030811881     PISSN: 09517375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001432-199708000-00013     Document Type: Review

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