Nature of gram-negative rod antibiotic resistance during antibiotic rotation

Surgical Infections

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 223-231

  Evans, Heather L ^a   Milburn, Meghan L ^a   Hughes, Michael G ^a   Smith, Robert L ^a   Chong, T W ^a   Raymond, Daniel P ^a   Pelletier, Shawn J ^a   Pruett, Timothy L ^a   Sawyer, Robert G ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPICILLIN; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFEPIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS RESISTANCE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; EMPIRICISM; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 25844522232     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2005.6.223     Document Type: Article

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