Tsunami disaster and infection: Beware what pathogens the transport delivers to your intensive care unit!

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1179-1180

  Masur, Henry ^a   Murray, Patrick ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

AEROMONAS; CHICKENPOX; DIARRHEA; DISASTER; EDITORIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENTERIC VIRUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEGIONELLA; MEASLES; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SALMONELLA; TSUNAMI; VIBRIO; WATER CONTAMINATION; WOUND INFECTION;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; NATURAL DISASTERS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 18344385924     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000163271.78189.0F     Document Type: Editorial

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