A European perspective on intravascular catheter-related infections: Report on the microbiology workload, aetiology and antimicrobial susceptibility (ESGNI-005 study)

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 838-842

  Bouza, E ^a   San Juan, R ^a   Munoz P ^a   Pascau, J ^a   Voss, A ^b   Desco, M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Catheter tip; Epidemiology; Intravscular catheter related infections; Laboratory workload; Microbiology techniques; Nosocomial infections

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TICARCILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANDIDA; CATHETER INFECTION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS; EUROPEAN UNION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; WORKLOAD; YEAST;

CANDIDA; ENTEROCOCCUS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 4644245525     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2004.00936.x     Document Type: Article

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