Outbreak of invasive Aspergillus infection in surgical patients, associated with a contaminated air-handling system

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 786-793

  Lutz, Brock D ^a   Jin, Jiankang ^a   Rinaldi, Michael G ^a   Wickes, Brian L ^a   Huycke, Mark M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR QUALITY; AIRBORNE INFECTION; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AIRFLOW; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FILTER; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MOISTURE; NEPHRITIS; OPERATING ROOM; PARTICLE SIZE; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL WOUND; TELEVISION CAMERA; WOUND INFECTION;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, FUNGAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; VENTILATION;

EID: 0141676168     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/377537     Document Type: Article

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