Predictive value of surveillance cultures and subsequent bacteremia with extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing enterobacteriaceae

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 481-482

  Blot, S ^a,b,c   Depuydt, P ^a   Vandijck, D ^a   Vandewoude, K ^a,b,c   Peleman, R ^a,c   Vogelaers, D ^a,c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEM; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; ORAL BIOPSY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM BIOPSY; SURVIVAL;

BACTEREMIA; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 39349084107     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/526349     Document Type: Letter

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