Relative frequency of nosocomial microorganisms at unicamp university hospital from 1987 to 1994

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 333-336

  Tresoldi, Antonia Teresinha ^a   Branchini, Maria Luiza Moretti ^a   Padoveze, Maria Clara ^a   Evangelista Dantas, Sonia P ^a  

^a University Hospital   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Microorganisms; Nosocomial infections; Pathogens

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CROSS INFECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; YEAST;

BRAZIL; CROSS INFECTION; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YEASTS;

EID: 0031266868     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46651997000600005     Document Type: Article

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