Nosocomial outbreak of diarrhoea by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli among preterm neonates in a tertiary care hospital in India: Pitfalls in healthcare

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 193-197

  Taneja, N ^a   Das, A ^a   Raman Rao, D S V ^a   Jain, N ^a   Singh, M ^a   Sharma, M ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

ETEC; Nosocomial outbreak; Preterm neonates

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; FURAZOLIDONE; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NETILMICIN; OFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE; BACTERIAL DNA;

AGE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOKING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES CULTURE; FEVER; HAND; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT FEEDING; INFECTION CONTROL; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; REHYDRATION; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANIMAL; BABY FOOD; CLASSIFICATION; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD HANDLING; GENETICS; INFANTILE DIARRHEA; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; SEROTYPING; STATISTICS; TIME;

ANIMALS; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEVER; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT FOOD; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; MILK; SEROTYPING; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0037636443     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhin.2002.1323     Document Type: Article

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