Role of environmental cleaning in controlling an outbreak of Acinetobacter baumannii on a neurosurgical intensive care unit

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 94-98

  Denton, Miles ^a   Wilcox, M H ^a,b   Parnell, P ^a   Green, D ^a   Keer, V ^a   Hawkey, P M ^a,b,d,e   Evans, I ^c   Murphy, P ^c  

^a Department of Microbiology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CLEANING; CONTROL STRATEGY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTBRED STRAIN; PATIENT CARE; SCREENING; SPUTUM CULTURE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WOUND INFECTION;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISINFECTION; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HOUSEKEEPING, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; HYPOCHLOROUS ACID; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OXIDANTS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 15044366028     PISSN: 09643397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2003.10.008     Document Type: Article

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