Inhaled colistimethate sodium in ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis due to multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 199-200

  Maskin, Luis Patricio ^a,b   Setten, Mariano ^a   Rodríguez, Pablo O ^a   Bonelli, Ignacio ^a   Attie, Shiry ^a   Stryjewski, Martin E ^a   Valentini, Ricardo ^a  

^a CEMIC   (Argentina)

^b Department of Physiotherapy Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas 'Norberto Quirno' ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLISTIMETHATE; COLISTIN; COLISTINMETHANESULFONIC ACID;

ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL LOAD; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; ERADICATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; TRACHEOBRONCHITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED TRACHEOBRONCHITIS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRONCHITIS; DRUG EFFECTS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TRACHEITIS;

AGED; BRONCHITIS; COLISTIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TRACHEITIS;

EID: 84921520684     PISSN: 09248579     EISSN: 18727913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2014.09.010     Document Type: Letter

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