Targeted surveillance to identify children colonized with vancomycinresistant enterococcus in the pediatric intensive care unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 95-98

  Milstone, Aaron M ^a,d   Maragakis, Lisa L ^b,d   Carroll, Karen C ^b,c   Perl, Trish M ^b,d  

^a Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^b Division of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^c Division of Medical Microbiology

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS PSEUDOCYST; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BALTIMORE; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CULTURE MEDIA; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT ADMISSION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 75249099838     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/649221     Document Type: Article

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