An outbreak of Enterobacter hormaechei infection and colonization in an intensive care nursery

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1243-1244

  Wenger, Peter N ^b   Tokars, Jerome I ^a   Brennan, Patrick ^b   Samel, Carol ^b   Bland, Lee ^b   Miller, Michael ^b   Carson, Loretta ^b   Arduino, Matthew ^b   Edelstein, Paul ^b   Aguero, Sonia ^b   Riddle, Conradine ^b   O'Hara, Caroline ^b   Jarvis, William ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROBACTER; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; NEWBORN; NURSERY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0030914898     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/513650     Document Type: Article

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