Nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia in Taiwan: Mortality analyses and the impact of vancomycin, MIC = 2 mg/L, by the broth microdilution method

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wang, Jiun Ling ^a,b   Wang, Jann Tay ^b   Sheng, Wang Huei ^b   Chen, Yee Chun ^b   Chang, Shan Chwen ^b  

^a E DA HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BROTH DILUTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; TAIWAN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TAIWAN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 77953047487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-159     Document Type: Article

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