Multidrug-resistant organisms detected in refugee patients admitted to a university hospital, Germany June‒December 2015

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Reinheimer, C ^a   Kempf, V A J ^a   Gottig S ^a   Hogardt, M ^a   Wichelhaus, T A ^a   O'Rourke F ^a   Brandt, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GERMANY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; REFUGEE; RESIDENT; SOMALIA; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECTS; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AFGHANISTAN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GERMANY; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; REFUGEES; SOMALIA; SYRIA;

EID: 84973408141     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.2.30110     Document Type: Article

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