Hospital acquired infections among patients admitted in the medical and surgical wards of a non-teaching secondary care hospital in northern India

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 81-83

  Ginawi, Ibrahim Abdelmageed ^a   Saleem, Mohd ^b   Sigh, Mastan ^b   Vaish, A K ^b   Ahmad, I ^b   Srivastava, V K ^b   Abdullah M , A Fahad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIL   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bacterial isolates; Gram positive bacteria; Hospital infection

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PUS; SECONDARY HEALTH CARE; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; URINALYSIS;

EID: 84893630909     PISSN: 2249782X     EISSN: 0973709X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7860/JCDR/2014/6673.4014     Document Type: Article

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