G Poulakou, H Giamarellou - Expert Opin. Investig. Drugs, 2008 - informahealthcare.com Nosocomial and community-acquired infections caused by Gram-positive pathogens
continue to be a challenge, mainly due to the increasing rates of resistance
among Staphylococcus spp. and Enterococcus spp. Oritavancin, a new ... Cited by 23 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
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microbiological profile, bacterial resistance, length of stay (LOS) and excess
mortality in 12 ICUs of the seven hospital members of the International ... Cited by 18 - Related articles - All 6 versions
VD Rosenthal, DG Maki, A Mehta, C Álvarez- … - AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control, 2008 - Elsevier We report the results of an International Nosocomial Infection Control
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L Vidaur, K Planas, R Sierra, G Dimopoulos, A … - Chest, 2008 - chestjournal.chestpubs.org Results: A significant delay in the resolution of hypoxemia was observed in VAP
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J Perlroth, M Kuo, J Tan, AS Bayer, LG Miller - Archives of Internal Medicine, 2008 - archinte.highwire.org You are seeing this message because your Web browser does not support basic Web
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D Pittet, B Allegranzi, J Storr, SB Nejad, G … - Journal of Hospital Infection, 2008 - Elsevier Healthcare-associated infection affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide
and is a major global issue for patient safety. It complicates between 5 and 10%
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- ►pnas.org AY Peleg, E Tampakakis, BB Fuchs, GM … - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008 - National Acad Sciences Prokaryote–eukaryote interactions are ubiquitous and have important medical
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B Allegranzi, D Pittet - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 2007 - UChicago Press Antimicrobial-resistant pathogens that cause healthcare-associated infections
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- ►critcaremed.com AM Noreddin, V Haynes - Drugs &# 38; Aging, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com Throughout most of the world we are witnessing an ever increasing number of
Abstract aged people as a percentage of the general population. In the coming
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Y Arabi, N Al-Shirawi, Z Memish, A Anzueto - International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2008 - Elsevier The rates of VAP varied from 10 to 41.7 per 1000 ventilator-days and were
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