Refinements of environmental assessment during an outbreak investigation of invasive aspergillosis in a leukemia and bone marrow transplant unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 18-23

  Thio, Chloe L ^a,c   Smith, Dottie ^a   Merz, William G ^a   Streifel, Andrew J ^b   Bova, Greg ^a   Gay, Lore ^a   Miller, Carole B ^a   Perl, Trish M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LEUKEMIA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASPERGILLOSIS; BALTIMORE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LEUKEMIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; VENTILATION;

EID: 0033632175     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501691     Document Type: Article

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