Is there a relationship between vancomycin-resistant enterococcal infection and Clostridium difficile infection?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 2 SUPPL., 1997, Pages

  Gerding, Dale N ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLINDAMYCIN; IMIPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIARRHEA; ENTERIC FEEDING; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; METRONIDAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 0030866944     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516247     Document Type: Article

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