Bad bugs, no drugs: no ESKAPE! An update from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

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Published in Clin Infect Dis on January 01, 2009

Authors

Helen W Boucher1, George H Talbot, John S Bradley, John E Edwards, David Gilbert, Louis B Rice, Michael Scheld, Brad Spellberg, John Bartlett

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts University and Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA. hboucher@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Associated clinical trials:

OR PathTrac (Tracking Intra-operative Bacterial Transmission) | NCT03605498

Reducing Perioperative S. Aureus Transmission | NCT03638947

Tobramycin Administered at the Beginning of Dialysis (ESRD) | NCT03904836

Reducing Intraoperative Infection Transmission in the Pediatric Operating Room | NCT03992209

Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in Patients Who Underwent a Transurethral Resection of Bladder (TURB) | NCT04209192

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