Infection in elderly interned in long-term care facilities;Infecção em idosos internados em instituição de longa permanência

Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 126-129

  Bôas, Paulo José Fortes Villas ^a,b   Ferreira, Ana Lúcia Dos Anjos ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Elderly; Epidemiology; Infection; Long term care facilities

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE;

EID: 34250630349     PISSN: 01044230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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