Vancomycin-resistant enterococci in a Singapore teaching hospital prior to 2005 [1]

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 311-312

  Fisher, Dale A ^a   Lin, Raymond ^a   Chai, Louis ^a   Kumarasinghe, Gamini ^a   Singh, Kamal ^a   Tambyah, Paul A ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; ERADICATION THERAPY; HAND WASHING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; MASS SCREENING; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; SINGAPORE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; SINGAPORE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 19944388293     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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