Police investigation into multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii outbreak in Japan

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 422-

  Yuji, Koichiro ^a   Oiso, Giichiro ^a   Matsumura, Tomoko ^a   Murashige, Naoko ^a   Kami, Masahiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; JAPAN; LETTER; MALPRACTICE; MASS MEDIUM; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; JAPAN; POLICE;

EID: 79951847984     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciq081     Document Type: Letter

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