Environmental contamination during a vancomycin-resistant Enterococci outbreak at a hospital in Argentina;Contaminación ambiental durante un brote de enterococo resistente a vancomicina en un hospital de Argentina

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 508-512

  Zárate, Mariela Soledad ^a,c   Gales, Ana ^b   Jordá Vargas, Liliana ^a   Yahni, Diego ^a   Relloso, Silvia ^a   Bonvehi, Pablo ^a   Monteiro, Jussimara ^b   Campos Pignatari, Antonio ^b   Smayevsky, Jorgelina ^b  

^a CEMIC   (Argentina)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Department of Pathological Anatomy   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Environment; Outbreak; Vancomycin resistant enterococci

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COLISTIN; ERTAPENEM; FLUCONAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; STREPTOMYCIN; SULTAMICILLIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS AVIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; VANA GENE;

EID: 35148864460     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: 15781852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13109987     Document Type: Article

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