Hospital environment contamination with Gram-negative bacteria is as common and important as that with Gram-positive bacteria in an overloaded tertiary care hospital in India [2]

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 164-165

  Taneja, N ^a   Emmanuel, R ^a   Singh, M ^a   Sharma, M ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CROWDING; DELIVERY ROOM; DISINFECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMIDIFIER; INCUBATOR; INDIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; REFRIGERATOR; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL;

EID: 11244340512     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2004.09.008     Document Type: Letter

References (1)

1. S.W. Lemmen H. Hafner S. Zolldann S. Stanzel R. Lutticken Distribution of multiresistant Gram-negative versus Gram-positive bacteria in the hospital inanimate environment J Hosp Infect 56 2004 191-197