The emergence of resistant strains of acinetobacter baumannii: Clinical and infection control implications

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 565-567

  Dy, Marie Eve ^a   Nord, Jill A ^a   LaBombardi, Vincent J ^a   Kislak, Jay W ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOGENICITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0033174518     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501673     Document Type: Article

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