Antibiotic-resistant gram-negative organisms in pediatric chronic-care facilities

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 760-766

  Lidsky, Karen ^a   Hoyen, Claudia ^a,b   Salvator, Ann ^a   Rice, Louis B ^a,b   Toltzis, Philip ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN; TAZOBACTAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; THROAT CULTURE; TRACHEOTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0037087223     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/338957     Document Type: Article

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