Bacteremia due to persistent strains of coagulase-negative staphylococci in a neonatal intensive-care unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 349-351

  Sung, Lillian ^a   Ramotar, Karam ^a   Samson, Lindy M ^a   Toye, Baldwin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAGULASE;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CANADA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE CARRIER; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STATISTICS;

BACTEREMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COAGULASE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; ONTARIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0033124527     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501632     Document Type: Article

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