The Limits of Serial Surveillance Cultures in Predicting Clearance of Colonization with Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 835-837

  Lewis, Jessica D ^a   Enfield, Kyle B ^a,b   Mathers, Amy J ^a   Giannetta, Eve T ^a   Sifri, Costi D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; CASE REPORT; CLEARANCE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHILD; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HETEROZYGOTE; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RECTUM; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEMASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RECTUM; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84965092785     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.57     Document Type: Article

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