Outbreak of multi-resistant Corynebacterium striatum infection in an Italian general intensive care unit

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 102-104

  Iaria, C ^a   Stassi, G ^a   Costa, G B ^a   Biondo, C ^a   Gerace, E ^a   Noto, A ^a   Spinella, S G ^a   David, A ^a   Cascio, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AZTREONAM; BACTERIAL RNA; CEFALOTIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOPERAZONE; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN; RNA 16S; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM STRIATUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIPHTHERIA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ITALY; KOCURIA KRISTINAE; LETTER; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NONHUMAN; STROKE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 34548502940     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2007.07.002     Document Type: Letter

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