Changes in colonization of residents and staff of a long-term care facility and an adjacent acute-care hospital geriatric unit by multidrug-resistant bacteria over a four-year period

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 114-122

  March, Albert ^a   Aschbacher, Richard ^b   Pagani, Elisabetta ^b   Sleghel, Ferisa ^a   Soelva, Gertrud ^a   Hopkins, Katie L ^c   Doumith, Michel ^c   Innocenti, Patrizia ^b   Burth, Johanna ^a   Piazzani, Fabrizio ^a   Woodford, Neil ^c  

^a Reparto di Geriatria   (Italy)

^b Laboratorio Aziendale di Microbiologia e Virologia   (Italy)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AmpC; ESBLs; Metallo lactamases; MRSA; Screening

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOTETAN; CEFTAZIDIME; CLAVULANIC ACID; CLOXACILLIN; EDETIC ACID; MEROPENEM;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; MORGANELLA MORGANII; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PREVALENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESIDENT; SCREENING; STAFF NURSE; URINALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARRIER STATE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; ITALY; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892642240     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365548.2013.859392     Document Type: Article

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