Controlling the spread of antibiotic-resistant organisms

Home Care Provider

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 290-291

  Sharbaugh, Robert J ^a  

^a M ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL;

EID: 0031297435     PISSN: 1084628X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1084-628X(97)90091-5     Document Type: Note

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2. Garner JS. Guideline for isolation precautions in hospitals. Am J Infec Control 1996;24(1):24-52.
3. Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. Recommendations for preventing the spread of vancomycin-resistance. Infec Control Hosp Epidemiol 1995;16(2):105-13.
4. Update: Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 1997;36:813-5.