Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterobacteriaceae bacteremia after biliary endoscopy: An outbreak investigation using DNA macrorestriction analysis

The American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 1993, Pages 489-498

  Struelens, Marc J ^a   Rost, Francis ^a   Deplano, Ariane ^a   Maas, Ann ^a   Schwam, Valérie ^a   Serruys, Elisabeth ^a   Cremer, Michel ^b  

^a ULB School of Public Health   (Belgium)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; DISINFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORGANELLA MORGANII; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISINFECTION; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0027359445     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0002-9343(93)90331-I     Document Type: Article

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