Enteric carriage of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus faecium in patients tested for clostridium difficile

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 664-670

  Garbutt, Jane M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE CARRIER; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSOURI; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 0033205078     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501562     Document Type: Article

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