Publications

prevalence of colonization with antibiotic resistant gram-negative bacilli in a nursing home care unit: the importance of cross-colonization as documented by plasmid analysis.	a prevalence study was carried out on a 100-bed veterans administration nursing home care unit to determine the extent of colonization with gentamicin-resistant gram-negative bacilli (grgnb). hand cultures of 12 employees and 17 environmental cultures were negative. twenty-six of 86 (30%) patients were colonized with 49 grgnb. sixteen patients (19%) had urinary colonization. multivariate analysis revealed significant associations between rectal or perineal colonization (p less than 0.01), and th ...	1986	3536783
bacteremia due to providencia stuartii: review of 49 episodes.	we reviewed cases of providencia stuartii bacteremia at a large community teaching hospital during a 12-year period (1981 to 1992). none of the infections were hospital-acquired. of the 49 patients, 47 (96%) came from a nursing home, and 45 (92%) had a long-term indwelling foley catheter. the urinary tract was definitely proven to be the source of bacteremia in 35 patients (71%) and was the probable source in another 5 patients (11%). polymicrobial bacteremia occurred in 25 patients (51%). the o ...	1996	8578355