Acquisition of multidrug-resistant organisms among hospital patients hospitalized in beds adjacent to critically ill patients

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 675-681

  Cohen, Matan J ^a,c   Anshelevich, Olga ^a   Raveh, David ^a   Broide, Ellen ^a   Rudensky, Bernard ^a   Yinnon, Amos M ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; CEFTAZIDIME; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BODY REGIONS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEATH; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE;

EID: 33747709997     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/505919     Document Type: Article

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