Comparison of the bacterial isolates and antibiotic resistance patterns of elderly nursing home and general community patients

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Xie, C ^a,b   Taylor, D Mcd ^a,b   Howden, B P ^a,b   Charles, P G P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bacterial infection; Drug resistance bacterial; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Nursing home; Urinary tract infection

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NURSING HOME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTICEMIA; SPUTUM CULTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NURSING HOMES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84864058186     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2011.02436.x     Document Type: Article

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