Microbiology and risk factors for catheter exit-site and -hub colonization in neonatal intensive care unit patients

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 357-362

  Mahieu, Ludo M ^a   De Dooy, Jozef J ^a   De Muynck, Aimé O ^a   Van Melckebeke, Guillaume ^a   Ieven, Margareta M ^b   Van Reempts, Patrick J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; STEROID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PERINATAL PERIOD; RISK FACTOR; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; UMBILICAL ARTERY CATHETERIZATION;

EID: 0034882542     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501913     Document Type: Article

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