Outbreak of bloodstream infection with the mold Phialemonium among patients receiving dialysis at a hemodialysis unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1164-1170

  Clark, Thomas ^a   Huhn, Gregory D ^a   Conover, Craig ^b   Cali, Salvatore ^b   Arduino, Matthew J ^a   Hajjeh, Rana ^a   Brandt, Mary E ^a   Fridkin, Scott K ^a,c  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR CONDITIONING; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISINFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GRAFT INFECTION; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MALE; MOULD; MYCOSIS; PHIALEMONIUM; PHIALEMONIUM INFECTION; REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; AIR CONDITIONING; ASCOMYCOTA; BLOOD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CULTURE MEDIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; HEMODIALYSIS UNITS, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RENAL DIALYSIS; VENTILATION; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 33751320189     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/508822     Document Type: Review

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