Update: Delayed onset pseudomonas fluorescens bloodstream infections after exposure to contaminated heparin flush - Michigan and South Dakota, 2005-2006

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 55, Issue 35, 2006, Pages 961-963

  McHale, J ^a   Clayton, J ^b   Kim, C ^c   Wilkins, M ^d   Wells, E ^d   Rudrik, J ^d   Arduino, M J ^e   Noble Wang, J ^e   Jensen, B ^e   Carr, J ^e   Srinivasan, A ^e   Gershman, M ^f  

^a South Dakota Dept of Health ^*

^b South Dakota Department of Health   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^f CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SYRINGE; UNITED STATES;

ANTICOAGULANTS; BACTEREMIA; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HEPARIN; HUMANS; MICHIGAN; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SOUTH DAKOTA; SYRINGES;

EID: 33748527798     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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