Clinical and epidemiological aspects of an enterovirus outbreak in a neonatal unit

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 275-280

  Syriopoulou, Vassiliki Ph ^a   Hadjichristodoulou, Ch ^a   Daikos, G L ^a   Pirounaki, M ^a   Chatzicou, V ^a   Pavlopoulou, I ^a   Anagnostakou, M ^a   Theodoridou, M ^a   Dellagrammaticas, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Enterovirus; Neonates; Outbreak; PCR

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROENTERITIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; RASH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URINALYSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CROSS INFECTION; GREECE; NEWBORN CARE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS; ROOMING-IN CARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0036675795     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhin.2002.1253     Document Type: Article

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