Routine antimicrobial susceptibility testing of coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from blood cultures: Is it necessary?

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1037-1040

  Chandran, A U ^a,b   Rennie, R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antibiotic susceptibility testing; Bacteraemia; Blood culture; Coagulase negative staphylococci; Skin contamination; Vancomycin usage

Indexed keywords

OXACILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INFECTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 28644434592     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2005.01278.x     Document Type: Article

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