Nosocomial transmission of Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guerin to children receiving cancer therapy and to their health care providers

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 356-362

  Waecker Jr , Norman J ^a   Stefanova, Rossina ^c   Cave, M Donald ^c   Davis, Charles E ^b   Dankner, Wayne M ^b  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CANCER THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0034108293     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313652     Document Type: Article

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