Contamination of peripheral hematopoeitic stem cell products with a Mycobacterium mucogenicum-related pathogen

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 755-757

  Kassis, Imad ^a,b   Oren, Ilana ^a   Davidson, Sima ^a   Finkelstein, Renato ^a   Rabino, Galit ^a   Katz, Tami ^a   Sprecher, Hannah ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b MEYER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MUCOGENICUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; ICE; INFECTION CONTROL; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 34250731178     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516666     Document Type: Article

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