Impact of an aggressive infection control strategy on endemic Staphylococcus aureus infection in liver transplant recipients

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 122-126

  Singh, Nina ^a   Squier, Cheryl ^a   Wannstedt, Cheryl ^a   Keyes, Lois ^a   Wagener, Marilyn M ^a   Cacciarelli, Thomas V ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; RECIPIENT; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

COHORT STUDIES; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644926111     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/500651     Document Type: Article

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