A five year outbreak of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus phage type 53,85 in a regional neonatal unit

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 37-45

  Wilcox, M H ^a   Fitzgerald, P ^a   Freeman, J ^a   Denton, M ^a   Gill, A B ^a   Hoy, C ^a   Parnell, P ^a   Porter, C ^a   Haspinall, L ^a   Hawkey, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRIFLAVINE; AMIKACIN; BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORHEXIDINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; HEXACHLOROPHENE; METICILLIN; NETILMICIN; PENICILLIN G; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; TRICLOSAN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DISEASE CONTROL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENVIRONMENT; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NOSE; SERUM; SKIN PROTECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURVIVAL;

BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENGLAND; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NURSERIES, HOSPITAL; PLASMIDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 17544399311     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268899003349     Document Type: Article

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