Agents and consequences of nosocomial bacterial infections in a Lebanese university hospital. Retrospective over a two-year period;Agents et conséquences des infections nosocomiales dans un centre hospitalier universitaire libanais: Étude rétrospective sur 2 ans

Annales de Medecine Interne

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 77-83

  Tohmé, Aline ^a   Karam Sarkis, Dolla ^a   El Rassi, Rabab ^a   Chélala, Dania ^a   Ghayad, Elie ^a  

^a SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Hospital infection; Nosocomial bacterial infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEBANON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; LEBANON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0035004922     PISSN: 0003410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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