Healthcare-associated bacteraemia caused by Leuconostoc species at a university hospital in Taiwan between 1995 and 2008

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-49

  Lee, M R ^a   Huang, Y T ^a   Lee, P I ^a   Liao, C H ^b   Lai, C C ^c   Lee, L N ^a   Hsueh, P R ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b FAR EASTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c CARDINAL TIEN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial susceptibility; Bacteraemia; Leuconostoc species; Outcomes; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CARBAPENEM; CEFTOBIPROLE; CEPHALOSPORIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DAPTOMYCIN; DORIPENEM; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RNA 16S; TIGECYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; APACHE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BROTH DILUTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LEUCONOSTOC; LEUCONOSTOC CITREUM; LEUCONOSTOC MESENTEROIDES; LEUCONOSTOC PSEUDOMESENTEROIDES; LEUKONOSTOC LACTIS; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAIWAN; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LEUCONOSTOC; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; RISK FACTORS; TAIWAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954592354     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2010.11.014     Document Type: Article

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