Sites of Colonization with Extended- Spectrum β-Lactamases (ESBL)- Producing Enterobacteriaceae: The Rationale for Screening

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1170-1171

  Tschudin Sutter, Sarah ^a   Frei, Reno ^a   Dangel, Marc ^a   Stranden, Anne ^a   Widmer, Andreas Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE CTX M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INGUINAL REGION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; RECTUM; SCREENING; THROAT; THROAT CULTURE; URINALYSIS; URINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARRIER STATE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GROIN; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHARYNX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECTUM; UNITED STATES; URINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867461543     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/668027     Document Type: Article

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