Highly resistant bacteria and donor-derived infections: Treading in uncharted territory

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 223-228

  Sifri, C D ^a   Ison, M G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; DONOR DERIVED INFECTION; EDITORIAL; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; RESUSCITATION;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84862164783     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2012.00752.x     Document Type: Editorial

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