An outbreak of neonatal sepsis presenting with exanthematous rash caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 226-228

  Viswanathan, R ^a,c   Singh, A K ^a   Mukherjee, S ^a   Mukherjee, R ^a   Das, P ^b   Basu, S ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^c AMBIKA   (India)

Author keywords

Bacterial infections; Gram negative bacteria; neonatal infections

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PATHOLOGY; RASH; SEPSIS;

CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EXANTHEMA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; SEPSIS;

EID: 79952228580     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810000701     Document Type: Article

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