Duration of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage, according to risk factors for acquisition

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1206-1212

  Marschall, Jonas ^a   Mühlemann, Kathrin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; PREDNISONE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INDWELLING CATHETER; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; SCREENING TEST; SKIN DEFECT; SWITZERLAND; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33751344427     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/507917     Document Type: Article

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