Stool Colonization of Healthcare Workers with Selected Resistant Bacteria

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 38-40

  Carmeli, Yehuda ^a   Venkataraman, Lata ^b   DeGirolami, Paola C ^b   Lichtenberg, Deborah A ^b   Karchmer, Adolf W ^b   Samore, Matthew H ^b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FECES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031605939     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141355     Document Type: Article

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