Blood culture contamination in a neonatal intensive care unit in shiraz, southwest-central Iran

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 133-136

  Hashemizadeh, Zahra ^a   Bazargani, Abdollah ^a   Davarpanah, Mohammad Ali ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Blood culture; Contamination

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLOOD CULTURE; EDEMA DISEASE OF SWINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IRAN; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA TYPHI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; CELLS, CULTURED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; IRAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; PREGNANCY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79251505775     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000321237     Document Type: Article

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