Epidemiology of bloodstream infection in nursing home residents: Evaluation in a large cohort from multiple homes

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1484-1490

  Mylotte, Joseph M ^a,b   Tayara, Ammar ^a   Goodnough, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b ERIE COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; METICILLIN; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; SULTAMICILLIN;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NURSING HOME; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUPERINFECTION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037115355     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/344649     Document Type: Article

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