Antibiotic resistance in non-major metropolitan skilled nursing facilities: Prevalence and interfacility variation

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1172-1174

  Crnich, Christopher J ^a,b   Duster, Megan ^a   Hess, Timothy ^a   Zimmerman, David R ^c   Drinka, Paul ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b WILLIAM S MIDDLETON MEMORIAL VETERANS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOXITIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FLUOROQUINOLONE RESISTANT GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; NURSING HOME; PREVALENCE;

DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FLUOROQUINOLONES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84867462985     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/668018     Document Type: Article

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