Inhaled colistin as adjunctive therapy to intravenous colistin for the treatment of microbiologically documented ventilator-associated pneumonia: A comparative cohort study

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1230-1236

  Korbila, I P ^a   Michalopoulos, A ^a,b   Rafailidis, P I ^a,b   Nikita, D ^b   Samonis, G ^c   Falagas, M E ^a,b,d  

^a ALFA INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AIBS   (Greece)

^b HENRY DUNANT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter; Critical illness; Klebsiella; Multiple drug resistance; Nosocomial pneumonia; Pseudomonas

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE INHIBITOR; CARBAPENEM; COLISTIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; APACHE; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSPASM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; AGED; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; COLISTIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955159963     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2009.03040.x     Document Type: Article

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