Nosocomial outbreak of Serratia marcescens in a neonatal intensive care unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 457-461

  Assadian, Ojan ^a   Berger, Angelika ^b   Aspöck, Christoph ^a   Mustafa, Stefan ^a   Kohlhauser, Christina ^b   Hirschl, Alexander M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Department of Neonatology   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NETILMICIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; RISK FACTOR; SEPTICEMIA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 0036678632     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502085     Document Type: Article

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