Epidemiology of enterobacteriaceae causing bloodstream infections in neonatal intensive care unit patients;Epidemiología de las enterobacterias productoras de bacteriemias en los pacientes de una unidad de cuidados intensivos neonatal

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 227-232

  Castro, Beatriz ^a   Montesinos, Isabel ^a   Fuster Jorge, Pedro ^a   Delgado, Teresa ^a   Miguel Gómez, María Antonia ^a   Sierra, Antonio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Enterobacteriaceae; Neonatal intensive care unit; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; MALE; SPAIN;

EID: 77951141984     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: 15781852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eimc.2009.05.013     Document Type: Article

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