Dissemination of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli at home: A potential occupational hazard for healthcare workers?

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 100-101

  Cotter, M ^a   Boyle, F ^b   Khan, A ^a   Boo, T W ^b   O'Connell, B ^a  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE CTX M 15; BETA LACTAMASE OXA 1; BETA LACTAMASE TEM 1; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGITIS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; JAUNDICE; LETTER; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RENOGRAPHY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BETA-LACTAMASES; BETA-LACTAMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; SPOUSES;

EID: 84455205556     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2011.10.007     Document Type: Letter

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