Antimicrobial activity of a novel catheter lock solution

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1674-1679

  Shah, Chirag B ^a   Mittelman, Marc W ^a   Costerton, J W ^a   Parenteau, Stephen ^a   Pelak, Michael ^a   Arsenault, Richard ^a   Mermel, Leonard A ^a  

^a RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; HEPARIN; NEUTROLIN; TAUROLIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ERADICATION THERAPY; INFECTION PREVENTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIOFILMS; CATHETERIZATION; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FUNGI; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOSES; TAURINE; THIADIAZINES;

EID: 0036093266     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.46.6.1674-1679.2002     Document Type: Article

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