One year study of bacterial and fungal nosocomial infections among patients in pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) in Alexandria

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 185-191

  El Nawawy, Ahmed Ahmed ^a   El Fattah, Mohamed Mohamed Abd ^a   El Raouf Metwally, Hala Abd ^a   El Din Barakat, Shahira Salah ^a,b   Rehim Hassan, Ihab Abdel ^a  

^a ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; CEFEPIME; CEFOPERAZONE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFRADINE; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CANNULA; CATHETER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EGYPT; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FINGER NAIL; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNGUS CULTURE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MENINGITIS; MYCOSIS; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; THROAT CULTURE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; WARD;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; EGYPT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYCOSES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33745699866     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmi091     Document Type: Article

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