Serratia marcescens sepsis outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit

Pediatrics International

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 208-212

  Arslan, Ugur ^a   Erayman, Ibrahim ^a   Kirdar, Sevin ^b   Yuksekkaya, Serife ^a   Cimen, Omer ^a   Tuncer, Inci ^a   Bozdogan, Bülent ^b  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Neonatal intensive care; Outbreaks; Parenteral nutrition; Serratia marcescens

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; NETILMICIN; PLASMID DNA; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SERRATIA INFECTION; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SERRATIA INFECTIONS; TURKEY;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; SERRATIA INFECTIONS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; TURKEY;

EID: 77950264112     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.2009.02934.x     Document Type: Article

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