Undetected vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus in surgical intensive care unit patients

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 685-686

  Zuckerman, Richard A ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; ECONOMICS; ENTEROCOCCUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NEW YORK; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 0033205031     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501565     Document Type: Article

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