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. 2009 May 15:1003–1069. doi: 10.1016/B978-032304841-5.50053-4

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Figure 51-5 — Impact of implementing barrier-type precautions (gown and gloves) with patients known to be colonized or infected by gramnegative bacilli resistant to gentamicin. Frequency of infections by gentamicin-resistant gramnegative bacilli and gentamicin use at Michael Reese Medical Center, 1970-1977. Data are plotted as the monthly average, and the averages for the first 7 and last 5 months of 1974 are plotted separately to demonstrate the effect of barrier-type precautions implemented in August 1974. EKES, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Enterobacter species, and Serratia species.

(From Weinstein RA, Nathan C, Gruensfelder R, et al: Endemic aminoglycoside resistance in gramnegative bacilli: epidemiology and mechanisms. J Infect Dis 1980;141:338-345.)

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