Dementia-specific risks of scabies: Retrospective epidemiologic analysis of an unveiled nosocomial outbreak in Japan from 1989-90

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Tsutsumi, Masae ^a,b   Nishiura, Hiroshi ^b,c   Kobayashi, Toshio ^b  

^a YAMAGUCHI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROTAMITON; IVERMECTIN; LINDANE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; BODY MOVEMENT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; PUBLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCABIES; SENILE DEMENTIA; SLEEP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WARD; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CROSS INFECTION; FOMITE; RISK; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOMITES; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; JAPAN; MALE; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SCABIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 27844487978     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-5-85     Document Type: Review

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