The challenges of pertussis outbreaks in healthcare facilities: Is there a light at the end of the tunnel?

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 537-540

  Edwards, Kathryn M ^a   Talbot, Thomas R ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN;

BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG USE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NAUSEA; PERTUSSIS; PROPHYLAXIS; RISK FACTOR; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; FRANCE; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; UNITED STATES; WHOOPING COUGH;

EID: 33745795917     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/506233     Document Type: Editorial

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