Multidrug-resistant bacterial colonization of combat-injured personnel at admission to medical centers after evacuation from Afghanistan and Iraq

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 71, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Hospenthal, Duane R ^a,c   Crouch, Helen K ^b   English, Judith F ^d   Leach, Fluryanne ^e   Pool, Jane ^f   Conger, Nicholas G ^f   Whitman, Timothy J ^e   Wortmann, Glenn W ^c,e   Robertson, Janelle L ^a   Murray, Clinton K ^a,c  

^a SAN ANTONIO MILITARY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

^d Bureau of Medicine and Surgery   (United States)

^e WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f LANDSTUHL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter; E. coli; Infection control; Klebsiella; Military; Trauma

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BATTLE INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IRAQ; KLEBSIELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLDIER;

ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 79960435673     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31822118fb     Document Type: Article

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