Risk factors associated to vancomycin-resistant enterococccus colonization in the Army Hospital in Santiago;Estudio de factores de riesgo para colonización por enterococo resistente a vancomicina en el Hospital Militar de Santiago

Revista Chilena de Infectologia

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 374-375

  Braun J, Stephanie ^a   Fica C, Alberto ^a   Andrighetti B, Daniela ^a   Porte T, Lorena ^a   Triantafilo V, Vjera ^a  

^a HOSPITAL MILITAR DE SANTIAGO   (Chile)

Author keywords

Intestinal colonization; Risk factors; Vancomycin resistant enterococcus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHILE; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILE; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350075011     PISSN: 07161018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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