Clinical outcomes in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus-colonized neonates in the neonatal intensive care unit

Neonatology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 241-247

  Kim, Young Hee ^a   Chang, Sung Soo ^a   Kim, Yang Soo ^a   Kim, Ellen Ai Rhan ^a,b   Yun, Sung Cheol ^a   Kim, Ki Soo ^a   Pi, Soo Young ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Asan Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Colonization, Staphylococcus aureus; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Neonatal intensive care unit

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NOSE SMEAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 34250636631     PISSN: 16617800     EISSN: 16617819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000098171     Document Type: Article

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