Significance of vancomycin resistant enterococci from urinary specimens at a tertiary care centre in Northern India

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 72-74

  Taneja, Neelam ^a   Rani, Phulan ^a   Emmanuel, Rekha ^a   Sharma, Meera ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

India; Urine; Vancomycin resistant enterococci

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE; NITROFURANTOIN; PENICILLIN G; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIURIA; CATHETERIZATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DILUTION; DRUG EXPOSURE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS PSEUDOAVIUM; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SEPSIS; STANDARD; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROLOGIC SURGERY; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ADULT; AGED; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; URINE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 1542503051     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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