Diagnostic characteristics of routine surveillance cultures of endotracheal aspirate samples in cases of late-onset ventilator-associated pneumonia due to Acinetobacter baumannii

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 867-869

  Malacarne, Paolo ^a   Corini, Marzia ^a   Maremmani, Paolo ^a   Viaggi, Bruno ^a   Verdigi, Simone ^a  

^a Universitaria Pisana   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLISTIN; SULBACTAM;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTILATORS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 34447333934     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/518728     Document Type: Article

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