Infections due to Elizabethkingia meningoseptica in critically injured trauma patients: A seven-year study

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 30-32

  Rastogi, N ^a   Mathur, P ^a   Bindra, A ^a   Goyal, K ^a   Sokhal, N ^a   Kumar, S ^a   Sagar, S ^a   Aggarwal, R ^a   Soni, K D ^a   Tandon, V ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Bronchoalveolar lavage; Elizabethkingia meningoseptica; Immunocompetent; Intensive care unit; Multidrug resistant; Trauma

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFTRIAXONE PLUS SULBACTAM; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; NETILMICIN; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TAZOBACTAM; TIGECYCLINE; TIMENTIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRITICALLY INJURED TRAUMA PATIENT; ELIZABETHKINGIA MENINGOSEPTICA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT; CHRYSEOBACTERIUM; COMPLICATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECTS; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; INJURY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHRYSEOBACTERIUM; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84952922362     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2015.07.008     Document Type: Article

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