Multiresistant Enterobacter cloacae outbreak in an intensive care unit associated with therapeutic beds

Critical Care

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  van der Mee Marquet, Nathalie ^a   Girard, Sophie ^a   Lagarrigue, François ^a   Leroux, Isabelle ^a   Voyer, Isabelle ^a   Bloc, Daniel ^a   Besnier, Jean Marc ^a   Quentin, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN; POLYURETHAN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLEANING; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RISK REDUCTION; BED; CROSS INFECTION; EQUIPMENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LETTER; MICROBIOLOGY;

BEDS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS;

EID: 34447553687     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc4835     Document Type: Article

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