Contamination of Commercially Packaged Urinary Catheter Kits with the Pseudomonad EO-1

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 282, Issue 1, 1970, Pages 33-35

  Hardy, Pat C ^a   Ederer, Grace Mary ^a   Matsen, John M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MIDDLE AGED; PSEUDOMONAS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; STERILIZATION; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0014705108     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM197001012820108     Document Type: Article

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