Association of private isolation rooms with ventilator-associated Acinetobacter baumanii pneumonia in a surgical intensive-care unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 499-503

  Mulin, Blandine ^a   Rouget, Claude ^a   Clément, Charles ^a   Bailly, Pascale ^a   Julliot, Marìe Christine ^a   Viel, Jean Françon F ^a   Thouverez, Michelle ^a   Vieille, Isabelle ^a   Barale, Françon ^a   Talon, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL JEAN MINJOZ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EQUIPMENT; FRANCE; HOSPITAL DESIGN; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATIENT CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGERY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VENTILATOR;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FRANCE; HOSPITAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PATIENT ISOLATION; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; VENTILATORS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0031178292     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141190     Document Type: Article

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