Journal article
Duration of exposure to multiple antibiotics is associated with increased risk of VRE bacteraemia: a nested case-control study
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Background
VRE bacteraemia has a high mortality and continues to defy control. Antibiotic risk factors for VRE bacteraemia have not been adequately defined. We aimed to determine the risk factors for VRE bacteraemia focusing on duration of antibiotic exposure.
Methods
A retrospective matched nested case-control study was conducted amongst hospitalized patients at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) from 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2012. Cas...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
National Institute for Health Research
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Public Health England
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Academy of Medical Sciences
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Department of Health
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Journal website
- Volume:
- 73
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 1692–1699
- Publication date:
- 2018-03-13
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-02-12
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1460-2091
- ISSN:
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0305-7453
- Pmid:
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29548009
- Source identifiers:
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830337
Item Description
- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:830337
- UUID:
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uuid:ec4903d0-02f5-49f8-a871-580e76acc8d2
- Local pid:
- pubs:830337
- Deposit date:
- 2018-05-24
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Limmathurotsakul et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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