Multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacterial infections after liver transplantation - Spectrum and risk factors

Journal of Infection

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 299-310

  Zhong, Lin ^a   Men, Tong Yi ^b   Li, Hao ^c   Peng, Zhi Hai ^a   Gu, Yan ^a   Ding, Xin ^a   Xing, Tong Hai ^a   Fan, Jun Wei ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANDONG PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL AFFILIATED TO SHANDONG FIRST MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Gram negative bacillus; Liver transplantation; Multidrug resistant; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; PIPERACILLIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84856615771     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: 15322742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2011.12.005     Document Type: Article

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