Impact of antibiotic-resistant pathogens colonizing the respiratory secretions of patients in an extended-care area of the emergency department

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 351-355

  Dantas, Sônia R P E ^a   Moretti Branchini, Maria Luiza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; OFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TIMENTIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATHETERIZATION; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FATALITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEBULIZATION; NURSING HOME; OROPHARYNX; PLASMID; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STOMACH INTUBATION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BRAZIL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0037947746     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502210     Document Type: Article

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