Comment on: Emergence of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria during selective decontamination of the digestive tract on an intensive care unit [1]

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 445-

  Abecasis, F ^a   Kerr, S ^a   Sarginson, Richard E ^a   Silvestri, L ^b   de la Cal, M A ^c   Zandstra, D ^d   Beishuizen, A ^e   Damjanovic, V ^f   van Saene, H K F ^f  

^a ALDER HEY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care ^*  (Italy)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GETAFE   (Spain)

^d ONZE LIEVE VROUWE GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

^e VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ESBLs; Paromomycin; Tobramycin resistance

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFOTAXIME; COLISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; NEOMYCIN; PAROMOMYCIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE FLORA; LETTER; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; RISK FACTOR; SERRATIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MACROLIDES;

EID: 34547837579     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkm127     Document Type: Letter

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