Epidemiology of central line-associated bloodstream infections at a tertiary care centre in northern India

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 299-301

  Misra, S B ^a   Misra, R ^a   Azim, A ^a   Baronia, A K ^a   Prasad, K N ^a   Dhole, T N ^a   Gurjar, M ^a   Singh, R K ^a   Poddar, B ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM;

ACINETOBACTER; ADULT; APACHE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANDIDA; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENTEROCOCCUS; EPSILOMETER TEST; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PNEUMONIA; PORPHYROMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEPSIS; SPHINGOBACTERIUM MULTIVORUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; BACTERIUM; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CLASSIFICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84958184759     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2015.11.015     Document Type: Letter

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