The medical overcoat - Is it a transmitting agent for bacterial pathogens?

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 121-122

  Srinivasan, Muthukrishnan ^a   Uma, Alagappan ^a,c   Vinodhkumaradithyaa, Arthanareeswaran ^a   Gomathi, Subramoniam ^a   Thirumalaikolundusubramanian, Ponniyah ^b  

^a Institute of Microbiology   (India)

^b MADURAI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c NONE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOTHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; LAUNDRY; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MEDICAL STUDENT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSICIAN; PREVALENCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESIDENT; SAMPLING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

CLOTHING; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 34347361498     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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