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Choice of Antibiotic and Risk of Colonization With Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus Among Patients Admitted for Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John Manzella ,
Ronald Benenson ,
Gene Pellerin ,
James Kellogg ,
Theodore Bell ,
Michelle Robertson  and
Doris Pope
John Manzella*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, York Hospital, York, Pennsylvania
Ronald Benenson
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, York Hospital, York, Pennsylvania
Gene Pellerin
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, York Hospital, York, Pennsylvania
James Kellogg
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, York Hospital, York, Pennsylvania
Theodore Bell
Affiliation:
Department of Research, York Hospital, York, Pennsylvania
Michelle Robertson
Affiliation:
Department of Nursing, York Hospital, York, Pennsylvania
Doris Pope
Affiliation:
Department of Infection Control, York Hospital, York, Pennsylvania
*
Department of Medicine, York Hospital, 1001 South George St, York, PA 17405
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Abstract

A time-series prospective study of patients admitted to the hospital for treatment of community-acquired pneumonia was undertaken to determine vancomycin-resistant enterococcal perianal colonization rates among patients who received ceftriaxone with or without erythromycin versus those who received levofloxacin. A colonization rate of 16% (8/51) was found in the ceftriaxone-erythromycin group versus 0% (0/52) in the levofloxacin group.

Type
Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 21 , Issue 12 , December 2000 , pp. 789 - 791
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2000

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