Incidence and risk factors of infection caused by vancomycin-resistant enterococcus colonization in neurosurgical intensive care unit patients

Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 123-129

  Se, Young Bem ^a   Chun, Hyoung Joon ^a   Yi, Hyeong Joong ^a   Kim, Dong Won ^a   Ko, Yong ^a   Oh, Suck Jun ^a  

^a Hanyang University Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Glasgow coma scale score; Intensive care unit; Neurosurgery; Segregation; Vancomycin resistant enterococcus

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; LINEZOLID; METRONIDAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BALLOON CATHETER; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; SPINE DISEASE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; URINE CULTURE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

EID: 73249116153     PISSN: 20053711     EISSN: 15987876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3340/jkns.2009.46.2.123     Document Type: Article

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