Infectious disease outbreaks in nursing homes: An unappreciated hazard for frail elderly persons

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 870-876

  Strausbaugh, Larry J ^a,b   Sukumar, Shirin R ^a   Joseph, Carol L ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BIOSAFETY; CLOSTRIDIUM; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NURSING HOME; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

AGED; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NURSING HOMES; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SALMONELLA; SKIN DISEASES; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 0037383566     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/368197     Document Type: Article

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