Incidence of antibiotic resistance in blood and urine isolates from hospitalized patients. Report from a European collaborative study

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 281-288

  Dornbusch, Kathrine ^a,b,e   King, Anna ^c   Legakis, Nicolas ^d  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFPIROME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; METICILLIN; NETILMICIN; PENEM DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EUROPE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL PATIENT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; URINE CULTURE;

DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; EUROPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SEPSIS; UREMIA;

EID: 0031662241     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365549850160945     Document Type: Article

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