Antibiotic exposure and room contamination among patients colonized with vancomycin-resistant enterococci

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 709-715

  Drees, Marci ^a,b,c,e   Snydman, David R ^a,b,c   Schmid, Christopher H ^a,b   Barefoot, Laurie ^a   Hansjosten, Karen ^a   Vue, Padade M ^c   Cronin, Michel ^d   Nasraway, Stanley A ^a,c   Golan, Yoav ^a,c  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; VANCOMYCIN;

AIR POLLUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EXPOSURE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; RISK FACTOR; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENTS' ROOMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 50949101781     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/589582     Document Type: Article

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