Microbiologic and clinical epidemiologic characteristics of the Chicago subset of a multistate outbreak of Serratia marcescens bacteremia

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1191-1193

  Sikka, Monica K ^a   Hayden, Mary K ^a   Pur, Stacy ^a   Segreti, John ^a   Harris, Alan A ^a   Weinstein, Robert A ^a,b   Trenholme, Gordon ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Division of Infectious Disease   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; HEPARIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SYRINGE;

CHICAGO; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; SERRATIA; SERRATIA INFECTIONS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SYRINGES;

EID: 77957870389     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/657074     Document Type: Article

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