Pagers and stethoscopes as vehicles of potential nosocomial pathogens in a tertiary care hospital in a developing country

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-45

  Gopinath, K G ^a   Stanley, Sulochana ^b   Mathai, Elizabeth ^a   Chandy, G M ^a  

^a Hospital Infection Control Committee   (United States)

^b CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; INDIA; INSTRUMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PAGER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STETHOSCOPE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CROSS INFECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HOSPITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INDIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STETHOSCOPES;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 78650776752     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/td.2010.100220     Document Type: Article

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