A case-control study to detect modifiable risk factors for colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 760-763

  Loeb, Mark ^a,b   Salama, Suzette ^a   Armstrong Evans, Maxine ^a   Capretta, Gina ^a   Olde, Jan ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROCOCCUS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ONTARIO; RISK FACTORS; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 0033228036     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501580     Document Type: Article

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