Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a neonatal intensive care unit: Molecular epidemiology and infection control measures

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Crivaro, Valeria ^a   Di Popolo, Anna ^a   Caprio, Alessandro ^a   Lambiase, Antonietta ^a   Di Resta, Mario ^a   Borriello, Tonia ^a   Scarcella, Alda ^a   Triassi, Maria ^a   Zarrilli, Raffaele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOPENICILLIN; AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEM; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHEM DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; MONOBACTAM DERIVATIVE; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE; UREIDOPENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DISINFECTION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; GENOTYPE; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAFF TRAINING; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HANDWASHING; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; ITALY; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS;

EID: 67649308771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-9-70     Document Type: Article

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