Effect of a selective decontamination of the digestive tract regimen including parenteral cefepime on establishment of intestinal colonization with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus spp. and Klebsiella pneumoniae in mice

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2537-2540

  Paterson, David L ^a   Stiefel, Usha ^b   Donskey, Curtis J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; COLISTIN; SULTAMICILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEPHALOSPORINS; DECONTAMINATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; INTESTINES; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 33745605232     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00071-06     Document Type: Article

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