Need for both antibiotic cycling and stringent environmental controls to prevent pseudomonas infections

Surgical Infections

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 163-

  Curtis, Luke ^a  

^a Norwegian American Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; WATER;

AIR; ENVIRONMENT; HAND; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; WATER SUPPLY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS;

EID: 66249088696     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2008.047     Document Type: Letter

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