MRSA - Retrospective analysis of an outbreak in the burn centre Aachen

Burns

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 575-578

  Fuchs, Paul Ch ^a   Kopp, Jürgen ^a   Häfner, Helga ^a   Kleiner, Ullrich ^a   Pallua, Norbert ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burns; Infection control; MRSA

Indexed keywords

DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BURN; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; DNA DETERMINATION; GERMANY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BURN UNITS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; GERMANY; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

EID: 0036768475     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-4179(02)00072-4     Document Type: Article

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