Ventilator-associated pneumonia in very low-birth-weight infants at the time of nosocomial bloodstream infection and during airway colonization with Pseudomonas aeruginosa

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 333-339

  Cordero, Leandro ^a,b   Sananes, Mercedes ^b   Coley, Brian ^c   Hogan, Mark ^b   Gelman, Miguel ^b   Ayers, Leona W ^d  

^a Newborn Services   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Children's Hospital

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE;

AIRWAY; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SURVIVAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

EID: 0033791782     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mic.2000.109884     Document Type: Article

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