Enterobacter cloacae epidemic at a neonatal intensive care unit due to the use of infected thermometers;Enterobacter cloacae-epidemie op een neonatale intensive-care-unit door gebruik van besmette thermometers

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 145, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 643-647

  Donkers, L E A ^a   Van Furth, A M ^a   Van Der Zwet, W C ^a   Fetter, W P F ^a   Roord, J J ^a   Vandenbroucke Grauls, C M J E ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; CEPHALOSPORIN; DISINFECTANT AGENT;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; SEPSIS; THERMOMETER;

CEPHALOSPORIN RESISTANCE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; NETHERLANDS; THERMOMETERS;

EID: 0035978114     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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