Emergence of glutaraldehyde-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1173-1178

  Tschudin Sutter, Sarah ^a   Frei, Reno ^a   Kampf, Gunter ^b,c   Tamm, Michael ^a   Pflimlin, Eric ^a   Battegay, Manuel ^a   Widmer, Andreas Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Bode Chemie GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTARALDEHYDE;

AUTOMATION; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BRONCHOSCOPY; COLONOSCOPE; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVIEW; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISINFECTANTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENDOSCOPES; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; GLUTARAL; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 80955145073     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/662624     Document Type: Review

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