Control of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in the neonatal intensive care unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 646-649

  Singh, Nalini ^a,b,c   Léger, Marie Michèle ^a,c   Campbell, Joyce ^c   Short, Billie ^a,c   Campos, Joseph M ^a,c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC STRAIN; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

CROSS INFECTION; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MASS SCREENING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 23044477725     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502595     Document Type: Article

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