Rapid identification of methicillin-resistant Staphylococci bacteremia among intensive care unit patients

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Diab, Manal ^a,b   El Damarawy, Mervat ^a,c   Shemis, Mouhamed ^a,d  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Imbaba   (Egypt)

^c THEODOR BILHARZ RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Egypt)

^d Ministry of Scientific Research   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFOPERAZONE; CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COAGULASE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; METICILLIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A; PENICILLIN G; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISK DIFFUSION; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; GRAM STAINING; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; MICROBIOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 44649137289     PISSN: 15310132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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