Caveat emptor: The role of suboptimal bronchoscope repair practices by a third-party vendor in a pseudo-outbreak of pseudomonas in bronchoalveolar lavage specimens

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 224-229

  Cosgrove, Sara E ^a   Ristaino, Polly ^b   Caston Gaa, Anne ^b   Fellerman, Donna P ^b   Nowakowski, Elaine F ^b   Carroll, Karen C ^b   Orens, Jonathan B ^a   Perl, Trish M ^a   Maragakis, Lisa L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLEANING; EPIDEMIC; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STENOTROPHOMONAS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

BRONCHOSCOPY; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS;

EID: 84857012858     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/664051     Document Type: Article

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