Seasonal and ascending trends in the incidence of carriage of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella species in 2 German hospitals

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1154-1159

  Kaier, Klaus ^a,b   Frank, Uwe ^a   Conrad, Andreas ^a   Meyer, Elisabeth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GERMANY; KLEBSIELLA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE;

BETA-LACTAMASES; CROSS INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GERMANY; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY, 500 AND OVER; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS;

EID: 77957861959     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/656748     Document Type: Article

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