Nosocomial antibiotic-associated diarrhea associated with enterotoxin-producing strains of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1828-1834

  Boyce, John M ^a,b   Havill, Nancy L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF SAINT RAPHAEL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN A; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN B; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN D; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ENTEROTOXIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TOXIN ANALYSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; FECES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; ENTEROTOXINS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 25644448162     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2005.41510.x     Document Type: Article

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