Molecular surveillance of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus at a neonatal intensive care unit in Brazil

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 574-579

  Silva, Helisângela de Almeida ^a   Pereira, Eliezer M ^b   Schuenck, Ricardo P ^b   Pinto, Ricardo C M ^a   Abdallah, Vânia O S ^a   Santos, Kátia Regina N ^b   Gontijo Filho, Paulo P ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^b Instituto de Pesquisas Clínicas Evandro Chagas   (Brazil)

Author keywords

methicillin susceptible; neonatal intensive care unit; neonates; PFGE; S. aureus

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; GENTAMICIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BLOOD VESSEL CATHETERIZATION; BRAZIL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; MALE; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PHLEBOTOMY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAZIL; CARRIER STATE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; METHICILLIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 69249097911     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2008.10.021     Document Type: Article

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