Consensus recommendation Baden-Wuttemberg: Dealing with patients with glycopeptide-resistant enterococci (GRE)/vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE);Konsensusempfehlung Baden-Württemberg: Umgang mit patienten mit glykopeptid-resistenten enterokokken (GRE)/vancomycin-resistenten enterokokken (VRE)

Hygiene + Medizin

Volumn 31, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 30-32

  Von Baum, Heike ^a   Dettenkofer, Markus ^b   Fahr, Anne Marie ^c   Heeg, Peter ^d   Wendt, Constanze ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c Limbach Laboratory   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPEPTIDE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; NURSING HOME; PATHOGENESIS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33644502868     PISSN: 01723790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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