Antimicrobial susceptibility of bacteria isolated from urine samples obtained from nursing home residents

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1116-1119

  Das, Rituparna ^a   Perrelli, Eleanor ^a   Towle, Virginia ^a   Van Ness, Peter H ^a   Juthani Mehta, Manisha ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; METICILLIN; NITROFURANTOIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG EFFICACY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; HOME FOR THE AGED; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NURSING HOME; URINE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NITROFURANTOIN; NURSING HOMES; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; URINE;

EID: 71649113210     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/647981     Document Type: Article

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