Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization is a poor predictor of intensive care unit-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections requiring antibiotic treatment

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1991-1995

  Sarikonda, Kiran V ^a   Micek, Scott T ^b   Doherty, Joshua A ^c   Reichley, Richard M ^c   Warren, David ^a   Kollef, Marin H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BJC HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

nasal colonization; nosocomial infection; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

DAPTOMYCIN; LINEZOLID; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; CROSS INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE CAVITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VANCOMYCIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957241849     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181eeda3f     Document Type: Article

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