ICU stay promotes enrichment and dissemination of multiresistant coagulase-negative staphylococcal strains

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 6-7, 2006, Pages 441-447

  Agvald Öhman, Christina ^a   Lund, Bodil ^a   Hjelmqvist, Hans ^a   Hedin, Göran ^a   Struwe, Johan ^a   Edlund, Charlotta ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b MEDICAL PRODUCTS AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; METRONIDAZOLE; OXACILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; AXILLA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NECK; OROPHARYNX; PERINEUM; PHENOTYPE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STUDENT T TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 33746634288     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540600561751     Document Type: Article

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