Clustering of antimicrobial resistance outbreaks across bacterial species in the intensive care unit

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-76

  Vlek, Anne L M ^a,b   Cooper, Ben S ^c,d   Kypraios, Theodore ^e   Cox, Andy ^f   Edgeworth, Jonathan D ^a   Auguet, Olga Tosas ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

antibiotic resistance; intensive care unit; outbreaks

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COLISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METICILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; CHRYSEOBACTERIUM; CITROBACTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA; HAEMOPHILUS; HAFNIA; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORAXELLA; MORGANELLA; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SERRATIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP D; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP G; STREPTOCOCCUS MILLERI; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; OUTBREAKS;

ADULT; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84878884720     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit192     Document Type: Article

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