An outbreak of klebsiella pneumoniae and enterobacter aerogenes bacteremia after interventional pain management procedures, New York City, 2008

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 496-499

  Wong, Melissa R ^a,b   Del Rosso, Paula ^a   Heine, Lisa ^c   Volpe, Veronica ^c   Lee, Lillian ^c   Kornblum, John ^c   Lin, Ying ^c   Layton, Marcelle ^a   Weiss, Don ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists   (United States)

^c NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; GREATER TROCHANTER; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INJECTION; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SACROILIAC JOINT; SYNOVIAL BURSA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESIA; BACTEREMIA; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT REUSE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PAIN CLINICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SACROILIAC JOINT; STEROIDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78149250931     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e3181fa1163     Document Type: Article

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