Multidrug resistance among gram-negative pathogens that caused healthcare-associated infections reported to the national healthcare safety network, 2006-2008

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 528-531

  Kallen, Alexander J ^a   Hidron, Alicia I ^a,b   Patel, Jean ^a   Srinivasan, Arjun ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR PREPAREDNESS DETECTION AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 77951034298     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/652152     Document Type: Article

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