The airborne transmission of infection in hospital buildings: Fact or fiction?

Indoor and Built Environment

Volumn 12, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 9-18

  Beggs, C B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter; Airborne; Aspergillus; Droplet nuclei; Hospital; Infection; Legionella; MRSA; Nosocomial; Pseudomonas; Staphylococcus aureus; TB; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; AIRBORNE INFECTION; ASPERGILLOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL BUILDING; HOSPITAL INFECTION; LEGIONELLA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ACINETOBACTER; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEGIONELLA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0037497177     PISSN: 1420326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1420326X03012001002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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