A Cluster of Serious Escherichia coli Infections in a Neonatal Intensive-Care Unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 774-776

  Diekema, Daniel J ^b   Barr, Joan ^b   Boyken, Linda D ^b   Buschelman, Barry J ^b   Jones, Ronald N ^b   Pfaller, Michael A ^b   Herwaldt, Loreen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; IOWA; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031266506     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141324     Document Type: Article

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