Detection of Vancomycin resistant enterococci from rectal swab samples by Becton-Dickinson GeneOhm VanR assay and culture at ICU of a tertiary care center in Turkey

Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Gozaydin, Ayhan ^a   Kose, Sukran ^a   Ece, Gulfem' ^a   Ersan, Gursel ^a   Gonullu, Mustafa ^a  

^a TEPECIK EDUCATION AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Conventional methods; Enterococci; Molecular methods; Vancomycin

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; PENICILLIN G; STREPTOMYCIN; SULTAMICILLIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BECTON DICKINSON GENEOHM VANR ASSAY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECTAL SWAB; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

EID: 84875060068     PISSN: 1682024X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12669/pjms.292.2567     Document Type: Article

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