Increasing resistance against antibiotics in bacteria isolated from the lower urinary tract of an outpatient population of spinal cord injury patients

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 143-148

  Hinkel, A ^a   Finke, W ^a   Botel U ^b   Gatermann, S G ^c   Pannek, J ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Spinal Cord Injury Division   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibiotic treatment; Bacterial resistance; Spinal cord injury patients; Susceptibility testing; Urinary tract infection

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEPHALOSPORINASE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEZLOCILLIN; NITROFURANTOIN; OFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATHETERIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; URINE CULTURE;

AMBULATORY CARE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 8344233525     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079695     Document Type: Article

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