Infection control in paediatrics

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-31

  Posfay Barbe, Klara M ^a   Zerr, Danielle M ^b   Pittet, Didier ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; ROTAVIRUS VACCINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST MILK; CHICKENPOX; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HERPES ZOSTER; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA; LENGTH OF STAY; MEASLES; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PERTUSSIS; PET ANIMAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY VIRUS; REVIEW; ROTAVIRUS; SEPTICEMIA; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; CHILD; CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITAL; METHODOLOGY; PEDIATRICS; STANDARD;

CHILD; CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; PEDIATRICS;

EID: 39149136941     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(07)70310-9     Document Type: Review

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