Descriptive epidemiology and case-control study of patients colonized with vancomycin-resistant enterococcus and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 913-919

  Sigurdardottir, Bryndis ^a   Vande Berg, Jeffery ^b   Hu, Jianfang ^a,e   Alamu, Josiah ^a   McNutt, Louise Anne ^d   Diekema, Daniel J ^a,b   Herwaldt, Loreen A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BURN UNIT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INSTRUMENTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOWA; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 33749015757     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/507278     Document Type: Article

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