Urinary tract infections caused by endemic multi-resistant Enterobacter cloacae in a dialysis and transplantation unit

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 215-220

  Kamińska, Wanda ^a   Patzer, J ^a   Dzierzanowska, D ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Enterobacter cloacae; Hospital aquired infections; Molecular typing; Renal transplant recipients; Urinary tract infections

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFOPERAZONE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; NETILMICIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RECIPIENT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; POLAND; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLAND; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0036636532     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhin.2002.1236     Document Type: Article

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