Keeping vulnerable children safe from pertussis: Preventing nosocomial pertussis transmission in the neonatal intensive care unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1084-1089

  Greer, Amy L ^a   Fisman, David N ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERTUSSIS VACCINE; ACELLULAR VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERTUSSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROBABILITY; RISK REDUCTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VACCINATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; STATISTICS;

BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, SECONDARY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; VACCINES, ACELLULAR; WHOOPING COUGH;

EID: 71949100566     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/644755     Document Type: Article

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