Home-use nebulizers: A potential primary source of Burkholderia cepacia and other colistin-resistant, gram-negative bacteria in patients with cystic fibrosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 584-587

  Hutchinson, Graham R ^a   Parker, Sally ^b   Pryor, Jennifer A ^b   Duncan Skingle, Fran ^b   Huffman, Peter N ^a   Hodson, Margaret E ^b   Kaufmann, Mary E ^a   Pitt, Tyrone L ^a  

^a CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLISTIN; GENTAMICIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; LUNG INFECTION; NEBULIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

EID: 0030041107     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.3.584-587.1996     Document Type: Article

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