Pseudo-outbreak of multiresistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a hematology unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 128-131

  Verweij, Paul E ^a,b   Bijl, Diana ^a   Melchers, Willem J G ^a   De Pauw, Ben E ^a   Meis, Jacques F G M ^a   Hoogkamp Korstanje, Jacomina A A ^a   Voss, Andreas ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; FECES; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NETHERLANDS; NEUTROPENIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FECES; HEMATOLOGY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; NEUTROPENIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS;

EID: 0031065459     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30142402     Document Type: Article

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