The prevalence of resistance to silver in a Burns unit

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 342-344

  Ip, M ^a   Lui, S L ^a   Chau, S S L ^a   Lung, I ^a   Burd, A ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; SILVER; SILVER NITRATE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BURN UNIT; CULTURE MEDIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HONG KONG; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BURN UNITS; CHLORHEXIDINE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PREVALENCE; SILVER NITRATE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33744538763     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2006.02.005     Document Type: Letter

References (8)

1. Lansdown A.B., and Silver I. Its antibacterial properties and mechanism of action. J Wound Care 11 (2002) 125-130
2. Ip M., Lui S.L., Poon V.K.M., Lung I., and Burd A. Antimicrobial activities of silver dressings: an in vitro comparison. J Med Microbiol 55 (2006) 59-63
3. Percival S.L., Bowler P.G., and Russell D. Bacterial resistance to silver in wound care. J Hosp Infect 60 (2005) 1-7
4. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute. Performance standards for antimicrobial susceptibility testing; Fifteenth Informational Supplement. CLSI document M100-S15. Wayne, Pennsylvania: Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; 2005.
5. Noguchi N., Suwa J., Narui K., et al. Susceptibilities to antiseptic agents and distribution of antiseptic-resistance genes qacA/B and smr of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated in Asia during 1998 and 1999. J Med Microbiol 54 (2005) 557-565
6. Hendry A.T., and Stewart I.O. Silver-resistant Enterobacteriaceae from hospital patients. Can J Microbiol 25 (1979) 915-921
7. McHugh G.L., Moellering R.C., Hopkins C.C., and Swartz M.N. Salmonella typhimurium resistant to silver nitrate, chloramphenicol and ampicillin. Lancet 1 (1975) 235-240
8. Lambert R.J.W. Comparative analysis of antibiotic and antimicrobial biocide susceptibility data in clinical isolates of methicillin-sensitive Staphylocccus aureus, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa between 1989 and 2000. J Appl Microbiol 97 (2004) 699-711