Airborne dispersal as a novel transmission route of coagulase-negative staphylococci: Interaction between coagulase-negative staphylococci and rhinovirus infection

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 504-511

  Bischoff, Werner E ^a   Bassetti, Stefano ^a   Bassetti Wyss, Barbara A ^a   Wallis, Michelle L ^a   Tucker, Brian K ^a   Reboussin, Beth A ^a   D'Agostino Jr , Ralph B ^a   Pfaller, Michael A ^b   Gwaltney Jr , Jack M ^c   Sherertz, Robert J ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRBORNE INFECTION; ARTICLE; CLOTHING; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GLOVE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASK; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE; NOSE SMEAR; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHINOVIRUS; SKIN CULTURE; SNEEZING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; CARRIER STATE; COAGULASE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COMMON COLD; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NASAL MUCOSA; NORTH CAROLINA; PICORNAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RHINOVIRUS; RIBOTYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 2942525087     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502430     Document Type: Article

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