Effect of antibiotics on the bacterial load of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonisation in anterior nares

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-34

  Cheng, V C C ^a   Li, I W S ^a,b   Wu, A K L ^a,b   Tang, B S F ^a   Ng, K H L ^a,c   To, K K W ^a   Tse, H ^a   Que, T L ^a,c   Ho, P L ^a   Yuen, K Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b RUTTONJEE HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^c TUEN MUN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Lactams; Antibiotics; Fluoroquinolones; Meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Nasal colonisation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFALOTIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; LINEZOLID; MACROLIDE; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NOSE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SIDE EFFECT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CARRIER STATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 48749123068     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2008.05.019     Document Type: Article

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