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Browsing by Author "Chen, Luke F"
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An Integrated Clinical Microbiology Service Ensures Optimal Early Empirical Antimicrobial Therapy for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infection Reply
(INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY, 2010-09) -
Current definitions of central line-associated bloodstream infection: is the emperor wearing clothes?
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Delays in appropriate antibiotic therapy for gram-negative bloodstream infections: a multicenter, community hospital study.
(PLoS One, 2013)BACKGROUND: Gram-negative bacterial bloodstream infection (BSI) is a serious condition with estimated 30% mortality. Clinical outcomes for patients with severe infections improve when antibiotics are appropriately chosen ... -
Identification of novel risk factors for community-acquired Clostridium difficile infection using spatial statistics and geographic information system analyses.
(PLoS One, 2017)BACKGROUND: The rate of community-acquired Clostridium difficile infection (CA-CDI) is increasing. While receipt of antibiotics remains an important risk factor for CDI, studies related to acquisition of C. difficile outside ... -
Mycobacterium avium pseudo-outbreak associated with an outpatient bronchoscopy clinic: Lessons for reprocessing.
(Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 2019-01)We identified a pseudo-outbreak of Mycobacterium avium in an outpatient bronchoscopy clinic following an increase in clinic procedure volume. We terminated the pseudo-outbreak by increasing the frequency of automated endoscope ...
