Nosocomial outbreak of Exophiala jeanselmei fungemia associated with contamination of hospital water

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1475-1480

  Nucci, Marcio ^a   Akiti, Tiyomi ^a   Barreiros, Gloria ^a   Silveira, Fernanda ^a   Revankar, Sanjay G ^e   Wickes, Brian L ^b   Sutton, Deanna A ^c   Patterson, Thomas F ^c,d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^d SOUTH TEXAS VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EXOPHIALA; EXOPHIALA JEANSELMEI; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RISK FACTOR; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, FUNGAL; EXOPHIALA; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; RISK FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0036604094     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/340344     Document Type: Article

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