Current prevalence of multidrug-resistant organisms in long-term care facilities in the rhine-main district, Germany, 2013

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 20, Issue 26, 2015, Pages 1-8

  Hogardt, M ^a   Proba, P ^b   Mischler, D ^c   Cuny, C ^d   Kempf, V A ^a   Heudorf, U ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MDRO Net Rhine Main Frankfurt am Main   (Germany)

^d ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e Public Health Department   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; DECUBITUS; DISORIENTATION; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; KLEBSIELLA; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH TUBE; URINARY CATHETER; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECTS; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NOSE; OROPHARYNX; RECTUM;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NOSE; OROPHARYNX; PREVALENCE; RECTUM; RISK FACTORS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; VANCOMYCIN-RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCI;

EID: 84937035111     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2015.20.26.21171     Document Type: Article

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