Macrolide and clindamycin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus isolates and antibiotic use in a veterans affairs medical center

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 180-182

  Modak, Rohit ^a   Ross, David ^a   Kan, Virginia L ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PATIENT CARE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLINDAMYCIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 39449137169     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/526448     Document Type: Article

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