Nosocomial infections in a Turkish university hospital: A 2-year survey [4]

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 235-236

  Yalcin, Ata Nevzat ^a   Turgut, Huseyin ^a   Cetin, Banu ^a   Erbay, Hakan ^b   Serin, Simay ^b  

^a Department of Infectious Diseases   (Turkey)

^b PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE; LETTER; PNEUMONIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL INFECTION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; RISK FACTORS; TURKEY;

EID: 0038748203     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503477     Document Type: Letter

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