Investigation of the prevalence of patients co-colonized or infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci in China: A hospital-based study

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1283-1288

  Wang, Zhen ^a   Cao, Bin ^a   Liu, Ying Mei ^a   Gu, Li ^a   Wang, Chen ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Enterococci; Staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type; Staphylococcus aureus, methicillin resistant

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MOXIFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHINA; CLONAL SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE CASSETTE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL WARD; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPUTUM SMEAR; SURGICAL WARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; WARD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHINA; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 68249154726     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.2009.11.009     Document Type: Article

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