Skin colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci among hospitalized patients with bacteremia

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 704-706

  Beezhold, David W ^b   Slaughter, Sarah ^b   Hayden, Mary K ^b   Matushek, Marian ^b   Nathan, Catherine ^b   Trenholme, Gordon M ^b   Weinstein, Robert A ^a  

^a Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CROSS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INFECTION;

EID: 0030894831     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clind/24.4.704     Document Type: Article

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