Surveillance for vancomycin-resistant enterococci colonization among patients of a liver transplant program [1]

Transplant International

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1218-1220

  De Gouvêa, Érika Ferraz ^a   Branco, Rodrigo Castelo ^a   Monteiro, Rodrigo Carreira M ^a   Halpern, Márcia ^a   Ferreira, Adriana Lúcia Pires ^a   Alves, Elizabeth Mendes ^a   Moreira, Beatrix Meurer ^a   Ribeiro Filho, Joaquim ^a   Santoro Lopes, Guilherme ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFEPIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE; NEOMYCIN; NORFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RIFAMPICIN; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ADULT; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 28444454515     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2005.00195.x     Document Type: Letter

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