Outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections associated with contaminated water in a University Hospital in Tunisia

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 378-380

  Mansour, Wejdene ^a   Bouallegue, Olfa ^a   Said, Houyem ^a   Dahmen, Safia ^a   Boujaafar, Noureddine ^a  

^a SAHLOUL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; LETTER; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TUNISIA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; TUNISIA; URETEROSCOPES; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; UROLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 40949119531     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/529588     Document Type: Letter

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