Mycobacterium simiae outbreak associated with a hospital water supply

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1050-1055

  Conger, Nicholas G ^a   O'Connell, Robert J ^a   Laurel, Valerie L ^a   Olivier, Kenneth N ^a   Graviss, Edward A ^b   Williams Bouyer, Natalie ^b   Zhang, Yansheng ^c   Brown Elliott, Barbara A ^c   Wallace Jr , Richard J ^c  

^a WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAP WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SIMIAE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY; CROSS INFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MYCOBACTERIUM; PATHOGENICITY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEXAS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 10844258919     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502342     Document Type: Article

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