Carriage prevalence of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in stool samples: A surveillance study

Australasian Medical Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 64-67

  Rai, Sumit ^a   Das, Dipmala ^a   Niranjan, Devendra Kumar ^a   Singh, Narendra Pal ^a   Kaur, Iqbal R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae; Gut colonisation; Prophylactic antibiotic

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFOTAXIME; CLAVULANIC ACID; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHEMOTHERAPY; COLON FLORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HAEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84895080275     PISSN: 18361935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4066/AMJ.2014.1926     Document Type: Article

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