The prevalence of colonization with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus at a veterans' affairs institution

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 171-175

  Tokars, Jerome I ^a   Satake, Sachiko ^a   Rimland, David ^b   Carson, Loretta ^a   Miller, Elaine R ^a   Killum, Edna ^b   Sinkowitz Cochran, Ronda L ^a   Arduino, Matthew J ^a   Tenover, Fred C ^a   Marston, Barbara ^b   Jarvis, William R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GEORGIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 0033089927     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501606     Document Type: Article

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