The clinical impact of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus colonization and bloodstream infection in patients undergoing autologous transplantation

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 688-694

  Ford, C D ^a   Lopansri, B K ^a,b   Gazdik, M A ^a   Snow, G L ^a   Webb, B J ^a,b   Konopa, K L ^a   Petersen, F B ^a  

^a LDS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Bloodstream infection; Colonization; Hematopoietic stem cell transplant; Immunosuppression; Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYELOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BACTEREMIA; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84943140315     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tid.12433     Document Type: Article

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