Lack of transmission of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in three long-term-care facilities

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 341-343

  Greenaway, Christina A ^a   Miller, Mark A ^b  

^a Centre Hospitalier Régionale du Suroît   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANADA; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LONG TERM CARE; METHODOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LONG-TERM CARE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUEBEC; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 0033126783     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501628     Document Type: Article

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