Resistance to selective decontamination: The jury is still out

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 282-283

  van der Meer, Jos W M ^a   Vandenbroucke Grauls, Christina M J E ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; POLYMYXIN;

ANAEROBIC CAPACITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DISINFECTION; FOLLOW UP; GRANULOCYTOPENIA; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE DECONTAMINATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CROSS INFECTION; DECONTAMINATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; OROPHARYNX; PRIMARY PREVENTION;

EID: 84875598348     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70014-8     Document Type: Letter

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