Containment of carbapenem resistance rates of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Acinetobacter baumannii in a Greek hospital with a concomitant increase in colistin, gentamicin and tigecycline resistance

New Microbiologica

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 417-421

  Meletis, Georgios ^a   Oustas, Efstathios ^a   Botziori, Christina ^a   Kakasi, Eleni ^a   Koteli, Asimoula ^a  

^a Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

Author keywords

Carbapenems; Colistin; Infection control; Tigecycline

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; COLISTIN; GENTAMICIN; MINOCYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GREECE; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERTIARY CARE CENTER;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARBAPENEMS; COLISTIN; CONTAINMENT OF BIOHAZARDS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENTAMICINS; GREECE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MINOCYCLINE; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84940500860     PISSN: 11217138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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