TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparison of Antibiotic Susceptibility Patterns of Bacterial Isolates Based on Time from Hospitalization and Culture Source
T2 - Implications for Hospital Antibiograms
AU - Dickstein, Yaakov
AU - Geffen, Yuval
AU - Leibovici, Leonard
AU - Paul, Mical
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/2/1
Y1 - 2016/2/1
N2 - We assessed the effects of time from hospitalization and culture source on bacterial susceptibility profiles. Increasing resistance correlated with increasing time from hospitalization for all bacterial groups, with 7 days in hospital representing the best time point for dichotomizing susceptibility rates rather than 48 hours. Antibiograms based on isolates from any source best represented susceptibility profiles.
AB - We assessed the effects of time from hospitalization and culture source on bacterial susceptibility profiles. Increasing resistance correlated with increasing time from hospitalization for all bacterial groups, with 7 days in hospital representing the best time point for dichotomizing susceptibility rates rather than 48 hours. Antibiograms based on isolates from any source best represented susceptibility profiles.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84966270794&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/ice.2015.258
DO - 10.1017/ice.2015.258
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C2 - 26564427
AN - SCOPUS:84966270794
SN - 0899-823X
VL - 37
SP - 212
EP - 214
JO - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
JF - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
IS - 2
ER -