Screening for carbapenem-resistant acinetobacter baumannii colonization sites: An implication for combination of horizontal and vertical approaches

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1057-1059

  Apisarnthanarak, Anucha ^a   Warren, David K ^b  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST; SKIN CULTURE; THAILAND; URINE CULTURE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARBAPENEMS; CARRIER STATE; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANS AT RISK; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84875048476     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis1024     Document Type: Letter

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