Acute emergence of elizabethkingia meningoseptica infection among mechanically ventilated patients in a long-term acute care facility

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 54-58

  Weaver, Kingsley N ^a   Jones, Roderick C ^a   Albright, Rosemary ^b   Thomas, Yolanda ^b   Zambrano, Carlos H ^b   Costello, Michael ^d   Havel, Janet ^d   Price, Joel ^c   Gerber, Susan I ^a  

^a CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Advocate Masonic Hospital   (United States)

^c ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d ACL Clinical Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COLISTIMETHATE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DAPTOMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; SULTAMICILLIN; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELIZABETHKINGIA MENINGOSEPTICA; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MORTALITY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; VENTILATED PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 72449204761     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/649223     Document Type: Article

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