Epidemiology of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bloodstream infection: Secular trends over 19 years at a University Hospital

Medicine

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 319-327

  Gasch, Oriol ^a   Ayats, Josefina ^a   Ángeles Dominguez, Maria ^a   Tubau, Fe ^a   Liñares, Josefina ^a   Peña, Carmen ^a   Grau, Immaculada ^a   Pallarés, Román ^a   Gudiol, Francesc ^a   Ariza, Javier ^a   Pujol, Miquel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052438254     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0b013e31822f0b54     Document Type: Article

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