Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in a Multi-Hospital System: Differences in Microbiology by Location

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 853-858

  Babcock, Hilary M ^a,d   Zack, Jeanne E ^c   Garrison, Teresa ^c   Trovillion, Ellen ^c   Kollef, Marin H ^b   Fraser, Victoria J ^a  

^a Division of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Campus Box 8051 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; EQUIPMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIHOSPITAL SYSTEM; PATHOGENICITY; PNEUMONIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES; VENTILATOR; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MISSOURI; MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL SYSTEMS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VENTILATORS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0345601956     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502149     Document Type: Article

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