Antimicriobial resistance patterns of colonizing flora on nurses' hands in the neonatal intensive care unit

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 231-236

  Cook, Heather A ^a   Cimiotti, Jeannie P ^b   Della Latta, Phyllis ^c   Saiman, Lisa ^d   Larson, Elaine L ^a,c  

^a Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^d Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; RIFAMPICIN; ALCOHOL; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HAND; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MYCOSIS; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS WARNERI; CANDIDA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; SURGICAL GLOVE;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CANDIDA; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ETHANOL; GLOVES, SURGICAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; HAND; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NURSES;

EID: 34247583970     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2006.05.291     Document Type: Article

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