Cluster of pseudoinfections with burkholderia cepacia associated with a contaminated washer-disinfector in a bronchoscopy unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 769-771

  Rosengarten, Dror ^a   Block, Colin ^a   Hidalgo Grass, Carlos ^a   Temper, Violeta ^a   Gross, Ilana ^a   Budin Mizrahi, Anna ^a   Berkman, Neville ^a   Benenson, Shmuel ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPE; BRONCHOSCOPY; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX; CASE REPORT; CONTAMINATION; FILTER; HUMAN; LUNG LAVAGE; PSEUDOINFECTION; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DEVICES; DISINFECTION; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISRAEL; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; BRONCHOSCOPES; BRONCHOSCOPY; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 77953816255     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/653611     Document Type: Article

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