Colonization with multidrug-resistant organisms in evacuees after Hurricane Katrina

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 726-729

  Seybold, Ulrich ^a,c   White, Nancy ^b   Wang, Yun F ^a,b   Halvosa, J Sue ^b   Blumberg, Henry M ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HURRICANE; INFECTION CONTROL PRACTITIONER; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LOUISIANA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 34250724284     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/518350     Document Type: Article

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