Biofilms on medical devices

Home Healthcare Nurse

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 589-594

  Talsma, Silke S ^a  

^a C R BARD INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; CATHETERIZATION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CROSS INFECTION; EDUCATION; EQUIPMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NURSING; PHENOTYPE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH PLANNING GUIDELINES; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; PHENOTYPE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; URINARY CATHETERIZATION;

EID: 37349023161     PISSN: 0884741X     EISSN: 15390713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NHH.0000296117.87061.14     Document Type: Review

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