Low frequency of endemic patient-to- patient transmission of antibiotic- resistant gram-negative bacilli in a pediatric intensive care unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 915-917

  Zoltanski, Joan ^a   Dul, Michael ^a   O'Riordan, Mary Ann ^a   Blumer, Jeffrey ^a   Toltzis, Philip ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT GRAM NEGATIVE BACILLI; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NONHUMAN; PEDIATRICS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; MALE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051768442     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/661595     Document Type: Article

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