High rate of false-negative results of the rectal swab culture method in detection of gastrointestinal colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 167-172

  D’agata, Erika M C ^a,b   Gautam, Shiva ^a   Green, William K ^a   Tang, Yi Wei ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; SKIN CULTURE;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 0037079849     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/338234     Document Type: Article

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