Determinants of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage in nursing homes [3]

Age and Ageing

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 327-330

  Suetens, Carl ^a   Niclaes, Luc ^b   Jans, Bea ^a   Verhaegen, Jan ^c   Schuermans, Annette ^c   Van Eldere, Johan ^c   Vandenbroucke, Jan P ^d   Buntinx, Frank ^b  

^a SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; MANNITOL; METICILLIN; NITROFURAN DERIVATIVE; NOVOBIOCIN; OFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISINFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NURSING HOME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; WOUND INFECTION; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HETEROZYGOTE; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STATISTICS;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BELGIUM; CARRIER STATE; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 34250634825     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afm013     Document Type: Letter

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