A decrease in the number of cases of necrotizing enterocolitis associated with the enhancement of infection prevention and control measures during a staphylococcus aureus outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-33

  Lemyre, Brigitte ^a   Xiu, Wenlong ^b   Bouali, Nicole Rouvinez ^a   Brintnell, Janet ^a   Janigan, Jo Anne ^a   Suh, Kathryn N ^a   Barrowman, Nicholas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Fujian Provincial Maternity and Children Health Hospital   (China)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BIRTH WEIGHT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HANDWASHING; HOUSEKEEPING, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84055222950     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/663343     Document Type: Article

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