Active surveillance to determine the impact of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization on patients in intensive care units of a veterans affairs medical center

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 503-509

  Patel, Mukesh ^a,b   Weinheimer, Jeffrey D ^a   Waites, Ken B ^c   Baddley, John W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

AGED; ALABAMA; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; METHICILLIN; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 46349092531     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/588161     Document Type: Article

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