Rectal culture screening for vancomycin-resistant enterococcus in chronic haemodialysis patients: False-negative rates and duration of colonisation

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 147-150

  Park, I ^a   Park, R W ^a   Lim, S K ^a   Lee, W ^a   Shin, J ^a   Yu, S ^a   Shin, G T ^a   Kim, H ^a  

^a Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

End stage renal disease; Haemodialysis; Vancomycin resistant enterococci

Indexed keywords

TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECTUM; SCREENING TEST; SMEAR; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; ENTEROCOCCUS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RECTUM; RENAL DIALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 80052264614     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2011.04.011     Document Type: Article

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