Hospital-acquired Burkholderia cepacia infection related to contaminated benzalkonium chloride

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 280-282

  Lee, C S ^a   Lee, H B ^a   Cho, Y G ^a   Park, J H ^a   Lee, H S ^a  

^a Chonbuk National University Medical School   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERVIEW; LETTER; MALE; PREVALENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK REDUCTION; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BENZALKONIUM COMPOUNDS; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 40649119178     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2008.01.002     Document Type: Letter

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