Outbreak of Enterobacter cloacae related to understaffing, overcrowding, and poor hygiene practices

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 598-603

  Harbarth, Stephan ^a   Sudre, Philippe ^a   Dharan, Sasi ^a   Cadenas, Mercedes ^a   Pittet, Didier ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; CROWDING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWITZERLAND;

CROSS INFECTION; CROWDING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0033191188     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501677     Document Type: Article

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