Role of biofilm in pseudomonas aeruginosa colonization and infection

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 925-927

  Cervia, Joseph S ^a,b   Ortolano, Girolamo A ^a   Canonica, Francis P ^a   McAlister, Morven B ^a  

^a Pall Medical ^*  (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAP WATER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOFILM; BIOFILTER; EPIDEMIC; GENE LOCUS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; SANITATION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

BIOFILMS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FILTRATION; FRESH WATER; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; NEW YORK; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 70349163636     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605643     Document Type: Letter

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