Device-related nosocomial infection in intensive care units of Alexandria University Students Hospital

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 52-61

  Sallam, S A ^a   Arafa, Mostafa A ^a   Razek, A A ^b   Naga, M ^c   Hamid, M A ^d  

^a High Institute of Public Health Egypt   (Egypt)

^b ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d Alexandria Main University Hospital   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; IMIPENEM; KETOCONAZOLE; MEROPENEM; SULPERAZON; SULTAMICILLIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE INFECTION; EGYPT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PSEUDOMONAS; SEPSIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CATHETER; URINE CULTURE; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CHILD; CROSS INFECTION; EGYPT; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; VENTILATORS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 33644585176     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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