Risk factors associated with gut and nasopharyngeal colonization by common Gram-negative species and yeasts in neonatal intensive care units patients

Early Human Development

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 391-399

  Parm, Ulle ^a   Metsvaht, Tuuli ^a   Sepp, Epp ^a   Ilmoja, Mari Liis ^b   Pisarev, Heti ^a   Pauskar, Merit ^a   Lutsar, Irja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b TALLINN CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Microflora; Neonatal intensive care unit; Neonates

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM; CEFOTAXIME; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULBACTAM; TAZOBACTAM; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIRTH; BLOOD CULTURE; BREAST FEEDING; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGUS CULTURE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HIGH RISK INFANT; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTESTINE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NASOPHARYNX; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NOSE SMEAR; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; RECTAL SWAB; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; SMEAR; TREATMENT DURATION; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VAGINAL DELIVERY; YEAST;

BREAST FEEDING; CANDIDIASIS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUM; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79955738003     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2011.02.007     Document Type: Article

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