Nosocomial outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa endophthalmitis

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1249-1251

  Mateos, I ^a   Valencia, R ^a   Torres, M J ^b   Cantos, A ^a   Conde, M ^a   Aznar, J ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TRYPAN BLUE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOCLAVE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PHARMACY; HUMAN; KERATOPLASTY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

AGED; BUFFERS; CATARACT; COLORING AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; TRYPAN BLUE;

EID: 33751350600     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/508838     Document Type: Article

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