Risk factors for the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Drugs

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 323-330

  Gopal Rao, G ^a,b  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEWISHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

AIR CONDITIONING; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CROWDING; DECUBITUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG USE; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENE MAPPING; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMIDIFIER; HYGIENE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION CONTROL; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEBULIZER; NONHUMAN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PROSTHESIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TRACHEOSTOMY; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEGIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0031913291     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00003495-199855030-00001     Document Type: Review

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