Correlation between respiratory colonization with gram-negative bacteria and development of gram-negative bacterial infection after cardiac surgery

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 546-548

  Sreeramoju, Pranavi V ^a,d   Garcia Houchins, Sylvia ^b   Bova, Judith ^b   Kelly, Cynthia C ^c   Patterson, Jan E ^d   Weber, Stephen G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^d MC 7881 ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEART SURGERY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PILOT STUDY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVALENCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; THORACIC SURGERY; TRACHEA;

EID: 46349111844     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/588159     Document Type: Article

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