Screening for resistant gram-negative microorganisms to guide empiric therapy of subsequent infection

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2169-2175

  Papadomichelakis, Evangelos ^a   Kontopidou, Flora ^a   Antoniadou, Anastasia ^a   Poulakou, Garifalia ^a   Koratzanis, Evangelos ^a   Kopterides, Petros ^a   Mavrou, Irini ^a   Armaganidis, Apostolos ^a   Giamarellou, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Colonization; Gram negative bacteria; Multidrug resistant bacteria; Surveillance; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CARRIER STATE; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 62749123055     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-008-1247-9     Document Type: Article

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