Active surveillance for methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in the neonatal intensive care unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 854-860

  Sarda, Vanessa ^a   Molloy, Anne ^a   Kadkol, Shirahi ^b   Janda, William M ^b   Hershow, Ronald ^a   McGuinn, Marcella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHICAGO; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 70349172980     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605321     Document Type: Article

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