Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci in Stool Specimens Submitted for Clostridium difficile Cytotoxin Assay

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 342-344

  Rafferty, Mary Ellen ^a   McCormick, Malkanthie I ^b   Bopp, Lawrence H ^b   Baltch, Aldona L ^b   George, Mary ^b   Smith, Raymond P ^b   Rheal, Carol ^b   Ritz, William ^b   Schoonmaker, Diana ^b  

^a STRATTON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES; GENETICS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; NEW YORK; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 0031134515     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141229     Document Type: Article

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