Successful control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in endemic neonatal intensive care units-A 7-year campaign

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Huang, Yhu Chering ^a,b   Lien, Rey In ^a,b   Su, Lin Hui ^a,b   Chou, Yi Hong ^a   Lin, Tzou Yien ^a,b  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

ARTICLE; ASEPSIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CELL CLONE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISINFECTION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; TAIWAN; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

CROSS INFECTION; ENDEMIC DISEASES; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TAIWAN;

EID: 80051627968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023001     Document Type: Article

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