A plasma expander-related Pseudomonas aeruginosa outbreak

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 1085-1088

  Orsi, Giovanni B ^a   Villari, Paolo ^a   Mondillo, Vanessa ^a   Fabiani, Massimo ^a   Marzuillo, Carolina ^a   Penni, Adrio ^b   Venditti, Mario ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b National Institute of Infectious Disease L Spallanzani   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZTREONAM; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; IMIPENEM; INSULIN; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PLASMA SUBSTITUTE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

BACTEREMIA; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GELATIN; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PLASMA SUBSTITUTES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS;

EID: 33845309470     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540600794402     Document Type: Article

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