Pseudo-outbreak of 'Mycobacterium paraffinicum' infection and/or colonization in a tertiary care medical center

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 848-853

  Wang, Shu Hua ^a,d   Pancholi, Preeti ^b   Stevenson, Kurt ^a   Yakrus, Mitchell A ^c   Ray Butler, W ^c   Schlesinger, Larry S ^a   Mangino, Julie E ^a  

^a Center for Microbial Interface Biology   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d N 1120 Doan Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BUILDING; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MACHINE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PARAFFINICUM; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; RISK FACTOR; SPUTUM CULTURE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TUBERCULOSIS; WARD; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, HOSPITAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ICE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349185106     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/599071     Document Type: Article

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