Evidence against transmission of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by hands and stethoscopes in a cystic fibrosis unit [4]

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 324-326

  Kerr, J R ^a   Martin, H ^a   Chadwick, M V ^a   Edwards, A ^a   Hodson, M E ^a   Geddes, D M ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; HAND; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LETTER; LUNG INFECTION; MICROCOCCUS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STETHOSCOPE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EQUIPMENT; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY;

CROSS INFECTION; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HAND; HUMANS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; STETHOSCOPES;

EID: 0036551547     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhin.2001.1176     Document Type: Editorial

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