Gram-negative multidrug-resistant organism colonization in a US military healthcare facility in Iraq

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 545-552

  Ake, Julie ^a,b   Scott, Paul ^b   Wortmann, Glenn ^a   Huang, Xiao Zhe ^b   Barber, Melissa ^c   Wang, Zhining ^b   Nikolich, Mikeljon ^b   van Echo, David ^a,b   Weintrob, Amy ^c   Lesho, Emil ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c 3rd Infantry Division ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHROMOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARMY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CITROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE MULTIDRUG RESISTANT ORGANISM; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INFANT; IRAQ; KLEBSIELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PATIENT MONITORING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSEUDOMONAS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RECOVERY ROOM; SCHOOL CHILD; SERRATIA; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AXILLA; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GROIN; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; IRAQ; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957931364     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/660015     Document Type: Article

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