Bacteriologic profile and antibiogram of blood culture isolates from a children's hospital in kabul

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 396-399

  Tariq, Tariq Mahmud ^a  

^a Radiology Department   (Afghanistan)

Author keywords

Antibiogram; Bacterial profile; Blood culture; Paediatric; Septicaemia

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFOXITIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PRISTINAMYCIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AFGHANISTAN; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DISK DIFFUSION; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS; SEPSIS; SEPTICEMIA; SERRATIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTEREMIA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; PAKISTAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PAKISTAN; SEPSIS;

EID: 84902247804     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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