Outbreak of Enterobacter hormaechei septicaemia in newborns caused by contaminated parenteral nutrition in Brazil

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-97

  Campos, L C ^a   Lobianco, L F ^a   Seki, L M ^a   Santos, R M R ^b   Asensi, M D ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Secretaria Municipal de Saude   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE AMPC; CEFALOTIN; CEFOXITIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BRAZIL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER HORMAECHEI; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LETTER; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUALITY CONTROL; SEPTICEMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION;

BRAZIL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; SEPSIS;

EID: 34247528140     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2007.02.013     Document Type: Letter

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