Search and you will find: Detecting extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae from a patient's immediate environment

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 5 SPL, 2013, Pages 534-536

  Judge, Christopher ^a,b   Galvin, Sandra ^c   Burke, Liam ^c   Thomas, Toney ^b   Humphreys, Hilary ^b,c   Fitzgerald Hughes, Deirdre ^c  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^b BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; DISK DIFFUSION; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; HOSPITAL; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BEDS; BETA-LACTAMASES; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; PATIENTS' ROOMS; TOILET FACILITIES;

EID: 84876081233     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/670206     Document Type: Article

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