Positive cultures of organ preservation fluid predict postoperative infections in solid organ transplantation recipients

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 672-680

  Yansouni, Cedric P ^a   Dendukuri, Nandini ^b   Liu, Guoyuan ^b   Fernandez, Myriam ^a   Frenette, Charles ^a   Paraskevas, Steven ^a   Sheppard, Donald C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRESERVATION SOLUTION;

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN PRESERVATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRULENCE;

AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DRUG CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN PRESERVATION; ORGAN PRESERVATION SOLUTIONS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUEBEC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84863226770     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/666344     Document Type: Review

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