Control of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus in health care facilities in a region

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 344, Issue 19, 2001, Pages 1427-1433

  Ostrowsky, Belinda E ^a,b,d   Trick, William E ^a,b   Sohn, Annette H ^a,b   Quirk, Stephen B ^c   Holt, Stacey ^a   Carson, Loretta A ^a   Hill, Bertha C ^a   Arduino, Matthew J ^a   Kuehnert, Matthew J ^a,b   Jarvis, William R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c Siouxland District Health Department   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; ANAL CANAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 0035837508     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200105103441903     Document Type: Article

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