A Preventable Outbreak of Pneumococcal Pneumonia among Unvaccinated Nursing Home Residents in New Jersey during 2001

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 848-852

  Tan, Christina G ^a,b   Ostrawski, Stanley ^a   Bresnitz, Eddy A ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEGAL ASPECT; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MALE; MANDATORY PROGRAM; MICROBIOLOGY; NURSING HOME; PATHOGENICITY; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RISK FACTOR; SEROTYPE; SEROTYPING; STANDARD; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VACCINATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MANDATORY PROGRAMS; NEW JERSEY; NURSING HOMES; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; RISK FACTORS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINATION;

EID: 0344307475     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502148     Document Type: Article

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