Colonization status and appropriate antibiotic therapy for nosocomial bacteremia caused by antibiotic-resistant gram-negative bacteria in an intensive care unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 575-579

  Blot, Stijn ^a   Depuydt, Pieter ^a   Vogelaers, Dirk ^a   Decruyenaere, Johan ^a   De Waele, Jan ^a   Hoste, Eric ^a   Peleman, Renaat ^a   Claeys, Geert ^a   Verschraegen, Gerda ^a   Colardyn, Francis ^a   Vandewoude, Koenraad ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEM; CEFEPIME; CEFUROXIME; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE FINDING; CITROBACTER; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG INDICATION; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTIC SHOCK; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SPHINGOBACTERIUM; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

ANAL CANAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BELGIUM; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOUTH; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TIME FACTORS; TRACHEA; URINE;

EID: 21244474036     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502575     Document Type: Article

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