Not all patients with vancomycin-resistant enterococci need to be isolated

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 678-683

  Sutter, S Tschudin ^a   Frei, R ^a   Dangel, M ^a   Gratwohl, A ^a   Bonten, M ^b   Widmer, A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CARBAPENEM; CEFEPIME; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ISOLATION; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; RISK FACTORS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 77955941075     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/655824     Document Type: Article

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