Microbiological surveillance in the Intensive Care Unit: A tertiary hospital experience

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Akcam, Fusun Zeynep ^a,b   Karaaslan, Dilek ^a   Dogan, Malik ^a   Yayli, Guler ^a  

^a SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Hubanlar apt No: 10 Kat: 1 ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bacteriological culture; Hospital infection; Intensive care unit

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PNEUMONIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRACHEA; URINALYSIS; WOUND;

ACINETOBACTER; ANESTHESIOLOGY; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TURKEY; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 32044470679     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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