Brote epidémico de enterocolitis necrotizante por Clostridium difficile en recién nacidos a término

Anales Espanoles de Pediatria

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 173-175

  Perez Gonzalez J ^a   Ventura Faci, M P ^a   Samper Villagrasa, M P ^a   Gallego Beamonte, J A ^a   Ruiz Lazaro P J ^a   Castillo Garcia F J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO LOZANO BLESA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; HUMAN; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; FECES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; SPAIN; STATISTICS;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FECES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; SPAIN;

EID: 0030077933     PISSN: 03024342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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