Clinical and economic impact of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus colonization or infection on neonates in intensive care units

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 177-182

  Song, Xiaoyan ^a   Perencevich, Eli ^b   Campos, Joseph ^a   Short, Billie L ^a   Singh, Nalini ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 75949090705     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/649797     Document Type: Article

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