Enterobacter species in a pediatric hospital: Horizontal transfer or selection in individual patients?

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 211-214

  De Man, Peter ^a,b   Van der Veeke, Edwin ^a   Leemreijze, Miranda ^a   Van Leeuwen, Willem ^a   Vos, Greet ^a   Van den Anker, John ^a,c   Verbrugh, Henri ^a   Van Belkum, Alex ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SINT FRANCISCUS GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CLONE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROBACTER; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0035879875     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/322014     Document Type: Article

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