Utility of surveillance cultures for antimicrobial resistant organisms in infants transferred to the neonatal intensive care unit

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Macnow, Theodore ^a   O'Toole, Dana ^a   DeLaMora, Patricia ^b   Murray, Meghan ^c   Rivera, Kristina ^a   Whittier, Susan ^a   Ross, Barbara ^d   Jenkins, Stephen ^e   Saiman, Lisa ^a,d   Duchon, Jennifer ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Antimicrobial Resistance   (United States)

^d NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Neonatal intensive care unit; Surveillance; Transport; Vancomycin resistant enterococcus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT ORGANISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; INFANT MORTALITY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HETEROZYGOTE; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PROCEDURES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PATIENT TRANSFER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VANCOMYCIN-RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCI;

EID: 84891735332     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e3182a1d77f     Document Type: Article

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