Reusable venesection tourniquets: A potential source of hospital transmission of multiresistant organisms

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 195, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 276-279

  Pinto, Angie N ^a   Phan, Thuy ^a   Sala, Gabriela ^a   Cheong, Elaine Y ^a   Siarakas, Steven ^a   Gottlieb, Thomas ^a  

^a ANZAC Research Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOTOMY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOURNIQUET; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

BACTERIAL LOAD; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; EQUIPMENT REUSE; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEW SOUTH WALES; PHLEBOTOMY; TOURNIQUETS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 80052438201     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja11.10333     Document Type: Article

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