Poverty and infection in the developing world: Healthcare-related infections and infection control in the tropics

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 217-224

  Shears, P ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Healthcare related infections; Millennium Development Goals; Poverty

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AFRICA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CHOLERA; CROWDING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISINFECTION; EBOLA VIRUS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS E; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SHIGELLOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 35648947283     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2007.08.016     Document Type: Note

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