Low risk of apparent transmission of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci from bacteraemic patients to hospitalized contacts

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 778-781

  Mutters, Nico T ^a   Brooke, Russell J ^b   Frank, Uwe ^a   Heeg, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acquisition; contact isolation; Risk factors; VRE epidemiology

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LINEZOLID; TIGECYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ACQUISITION; CONTACT ISOLATION; RISK FACTORS; VRE EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; BACTEREMIA; CARRIER STATE; CROSS INFECTION; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GERMANY; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 84883291507     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2012.11.019     Document Type: Article

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