Is surveillance for multidrug-resistant enterobacteriaceae an effective infection control strategy in the absence of an outbreak?

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 186, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1754-1760

  Gardam, Michael A ^a,f   Burrows, Lori L ^a,c   Kus, Julianne V ^a,c   Brunton, James ^a   Low, Donald E ^a   Conly, John M ^a,c,d,e   Humar, Atul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COST; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTEGRON; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SCREENING;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CANADA; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0037115087     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/345921     Document Type: Article

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