Relationship of colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci and risk of systemic infection in patients with cancer [12]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1506-1507

  Matar, Madonna J ^a   Safdar, Amar ^a   Rolston, Kenneth V I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS AVIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS DURANS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE INFECTION; LETTER; LEUKEMIA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; SURGICAL WOUND; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; WOUND INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 33646444070     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503675     Document Type: Letter

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