Prevalence of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci colonization and its risk factors in chronic hemodialysis patients in Shiraz, Iran

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Assadian, Ojan ^a   Askarian, Mehrdad ^b,c   Stadler, Maria ^a   Shaghaghian, Soheila ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ARABINOSE; AZTREONAM; CEFALEXIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG USE; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; GENOTYPE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANK SUM TEST; RECTUM BIOPSY; RISK FACTOR; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROCOCCUS; HEMODIALYSIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEMODIALYSIS UNITS, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; IRAN; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 34347393124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-7-52     Document Type: Article

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