Nosocomial Mycobacterium bovis-Bacille Calmette-Guérin Infections Due to Contamination of Chemotherapeutics: Case Finding and Route of Transmission

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 188, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1332-1335

  Vos, Margreet C ^a   De Haas, Petra E W ^e   Verbrugh, Henri A ^a   Renders, Nicole H M ^a,f   Hartwig, Nico G ^a   De Man, Peter ^a,g   Kolk, Arend H J ^b   Van Deutekom, Henk ^c   Yntema, J L ^d   Vulto, Arnold G ^a   Messemaker, Marja ^a   Van Soolingen, Dick ^e  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c MUNICIPAL HEALTH SERVICE   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^f JEROEN BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^g SINT FRANCISCUS GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BCG VACCINE; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BCG VACCINATION; BLADDER IRRIGATION; CHEMOTHERAPY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; DISINFECTION; DRUG CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; GLOVE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PHARMACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BCG VACCINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0242721036     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/379034     Document Type: Article

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