Prolonged colonization with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in long-term care patients and the significance of “clearance”

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1654-1660

  Baden, L R ^a,c   Thiemke, W ^b   Skolnik, A ^b   Chambers, R ^b   Strymish, J ^b   Gold, H S ^a   Moellering, R C ^a   Eliopoulos, G M ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALEXIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DICLOXACILLIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; PIPERACILLIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TIMENTIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES CULTURE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

CULTURE MEDIA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 0035889485     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/323762     Document Type: Article

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