How can we stem the rising tide of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacilli?

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 338-340

  Maragakis, Lisa L ^a   Perl, Trish M ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DISEASE DURATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; LENGTH OF STAY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SAMPLING; SOLDIER;

CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 77949561582     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/651530     Document Type: Note

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