Community-onset healthcare-associated MRSA bacteraemia in a district general hospital

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 480-486

  Karas, J Andreas ^a,b   Enoch, D A ^b   Emery, M M ^a  

^a HINCHINGBROOKE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PAPWORTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteraemia; Community onset infection; Healthcare associated infection; MRSA

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; METICILLIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COMMUNITY CARE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SURGICAL WARD; UNITED KINGDOM; URINE CATHETER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 33644968323     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2005.10.001     Document Type: Article

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