Rapid colonization with methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci after surgery

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2058-2062

  Zingg, Walter ^a,b   Demartines, Nicolas ^a   Imhof, Alexander ^a   Senn, Gabriela ^a   Ruef, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFAZOLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE; OXACILLIN;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLONE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPEDICS; PROPHYLAXIS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SCREENING; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; STANDARD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SURGERY; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; COAGULASE; COHORT STUDIES; DISINFECTION; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 70349306261     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-009-0167-3     Document Type: Article

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