Characteristics of pathogens causing urinary tract infections in hospitals in North America: Results from the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program, 1997

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-63

  Jones, Ronald N ^a   Kugler, Kari C ^a   Pfaller, Michael A ^a   Winokur, Patricia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GATIFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; NITROFURANTOIN; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TAZOBACTAM; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; KLEBSIELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NORTH AMERICA; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0033199597     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(98)00158-8     Document Type: Article

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