Emergence of resistant microbes in critical care units in transient, despite an unrestricted formulary and multiple antibiotic trials

Surgical Infections

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 135-144

  Franklin, Glen A ^a   Moore, Kara Beth ^a   Snyder, James W ^a   Polk Jr , Hiram C ^a   Cheadle, William G ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; CEFTAZIDIME; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; FLUCONAZOLE; SULTAMICILLIN; TIMENTIN; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULARY; DRUG USE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPUTUM CULTURE; SURGICAL WOUND; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; YEAST; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BURN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG UTILIZATION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PUBLICATION; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BURN UNITS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG UTILIZATION; FORMULARIES, HOSPITAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0036627969     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/109629602760105808     Document Type: Article

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