Epidemiologic study of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in critical patients and reservoirs

Archives of Medical Research

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 238-242

  Corona Nakamura, Ana Luisa ^a   Miranda Novales, María Guadalupe ^b   Leaños Miranda, Blanca ^b   Portillo Gómez, Leopoldo ^c   Hernández Chávez, Abel ^c   Anthor Rendón, Juan ^d   Aguilar Benavides, Sergio ^d  

^a Medicina Guadalajara Medical Center   (Mexico)

^b HOSPITAL DE PEDIATRÍA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

^d INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Intensive care units; PFGE typing; Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CARBENICILLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; NORFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN; PLASMID DNA; TICARCILLIN; TIMENTIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRONCHUS SECRETION; CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; ENVIRONMENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL STAFF; PATIENT; PLEURA EFFUSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; WATER CONTAMINATION; WOUND INFECTION;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS;

EID: 0034981240     PISSN: 01884409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0188-4409(01)00267-3     Document Type: Article

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