Is admission screening for Pseudomonas aeruginosa useful in haematologic patients? Aprospective study with 1310 patients

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 572.e1-572.e3

  Sidler, J A ^a   Frei, R ^a,b   Tschudin Sutter, S ^a   Dangel, M ^a   Battegay, M ^a   Weisser, M ^a   Passweg, J ^c   Widmer, A F ^a  

^a Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology   (Switzerland)

^b Clinical Microbiology Laboratory   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bloodstream infection; Colonization; Molecular typing; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CLONE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SCREENING; BACTEREMIA; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SCREENING; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTEREMIA; CARRIER STATE; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS;

EID: 84930814546     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2015.02.004     Document Type: Article

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