Association between muscosits severity and vancomycin-resistant enterococcal bloodstream infection in hospitalized cancer patients

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 660-663

  Kuehnert, Matthew J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; APACHE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH MUCOSA; NEOPLASM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; STOMATITIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; APACHE; BACTEREMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GEORGIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH MUCOSA; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS; STOMATITIS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 0033205053     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501561     Document Type: Article

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