Significant Increase in the Isolation of Glycopeptide-Resistant Enterococci From Patients Hospitalized in the Transplant Surgery Ward in 2004-2005

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2883-2885

  Mlynarczyk G ^a   Grzybowska, W ^b   Mlynarczyk A ^a   Tyski, S ^a,b   Kawecki, D ^a   Luczak M ^a   Chmura, A ^a   Rowinski W ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; GENTAMICIN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; LIGASE; LINEZOLID; NITROFURANTOIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL WARD; TRANSPLANTATION; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; GLYCOPEPTIDES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; POLAND; TRANSPLANTATION; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 36049001855     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.08.045     Document Type: Article

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