Microbiological contamination of enteral feeding solutions used in Costa Rican Hospitals

Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutricion

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 277-281

  Arias, Maria Laura ^a   Monge, Rafael ^a   Chávez, Carolina ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Coliforms; Enteral feeding; Listeria; Microbiological contamination; Pseudomonas

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSTA RICA; ENTERIC FEEDING; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVALUATION; FOOD HANDLING; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYGIENE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LISTERIA; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SERRATIA;

COSTA RICA; ENTERAL NUTRITION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FOOD, FORMULATED; HUMANS; PSEUDOMONAS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LISTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.; SERRATIA; SERRATIA SP.;

EID: 0742304642     PISSN: 00040622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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