Choice of antibiotic and risk of colonization with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus among patients admitted for treatment of community-acquired pneumonia

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 789-791

  Manzella, John ^a   Benenson, Ronald ^a   Pellerin, Gene ^a   Kellogg, J ^a   Bell, Theodore ^a   Robertson, Michelle ^a   Pope, Doris ^a  

^a YORK HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE;

EID: 0034541451     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501735     Document Type: Article

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