Nosocomial transmission of salmonella gastroenteritis to laundry workers in a nursing home

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 22-26

  Standaert, Steven M ^a   Hutcheson, Robert H ^a   Schaffner, William ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FECES; FEMALE; FOOD POISONING; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LAUNDRY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NURSING HOME; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; FECES; FEMALE; HUMAN; KENTUCKY; LAUNDRY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NURSING HOMES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING;

EID: 0027969605     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/646813     Document Type: Article

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