Nosocomial blood stream infections in Imam Khomeini Hospital, Urmia Islamic Republic of Iran, 1999-2001

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 478-484

  Rahbar, M ^a   Gra Agaji, R ^b   Hashemi, S ^b  

^a Reference Laboratories of Iran   (Iran)

^b URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALOTIN; CEFTIZOXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IRAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN PENETRATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA;

BACTEREMIA; CITROBACTER; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; IRAN; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 33645277811     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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