Control of transmission of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus faecium in a long-term-care facility

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 312-317

  Armstrong Evans, Maxine ^a   Litt, Margaret ^b   McArthur, Margaret A ^a   Willey, Barbara ^a   Cann, Darlene ^a   Liska, Susan ^c   Nusinowitz, Sidney ^c,d   Gould, Richard ^e   Blacklock, Anna ^a   Low, Donald E ^a   McGeer, Allison ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b LAB CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^c Barton Place Nursing Home ^*  (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e CITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANADA; COST; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECT; ECONOMICS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NURSING HOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; NURSING HOMES; ONTARIO; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 0033124350     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501623     Document Type: Article

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