Outbreak of Acinetobacter spp septicemia in a neonatal ICU

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 365-366

  Mittal, Nalini ^a,b   Nair, Deepthi ^a   Gupta, Neera ^a   Rawat, Deepti ^a   Kabra, S ^a   Kumar, Surinder ^a   Krishna Prakash, S ^a   Sharma, V K ^a  

^a LOK NAYAK HOSPITAL   (India)

^b AL 70 ^*  (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; SAMPLING; SEPTICEMIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0141852340     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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