Control of construction-associated nosocomial aspergillosis in an antiquated hematology unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 360-364

  Loo, Vivian G ^a,b   Bertrand, Céline ^a   Dixon, Catherine ^a   Vityé, Debbie ^a   DeSalis, Beverley ^a   McLean, A P H ^a,b   Brox, Alan ^a,b   Robson, Hugh G ^a,b  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER CENTER; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL DESIGN; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INCIDENCE; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INFECTION CONTROL; LEUKEMIA; METHODOLOGY; NEUTROPENIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ASPERGILLOSIS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HOSPITAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; LEUKEMIA; NEUTROPENIA; ONCOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTILATION;

EID: 0030158171     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141134     Document Type: Article

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