Outbreak of pseudomonas aeruginosa infection associated with contamination of a flexible bronchoscope

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 550-555

  DiazGranados, Carlos A ^a,c   Jones, Marolyn Y ^c   Thiphasone, Kongphet Tran ^c   White, Nancy ^c   Shapiro, Mark ^d   Wang, Yun F ^b,d   Ray, Susan M ^a,c   Blumberg, Henry M ^a,c  

^a Division of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^b Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ^*

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Grady Memorial Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BRONCHOSCOPE; CLEANING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISINFECTION; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIC; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; PSEUDOMONAS PNEUMONIA; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRONCHOSCOPES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS;

EID: 67651102772     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597235     Document Type: Article

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