Enterobacter aerogenes outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit

Pediatrics International

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 157-161

  Loiwal, Vikas ^a   Kumar, Ajay ^a   Gupta, Piyush ^a,b   Gomber, Sunil ^a   Ramachandran, V G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b B P KOIRALA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Enterobacter; Neonate; Septicemia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEPTICEMIA;

CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS;

EID: 0033063447     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-200X.1999.4121033.x     Document Type: Article

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