Negotiating hospital infections: The debate between ecological balance and eradication strategies in british hospitals, 1947-1969

Dynamis

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 385-405

  Condrau, Flurin ^a   Kirk, Robert G W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Ecology; Epidemiology; Hospital infection; Resistance

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CROSS INFECTION; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTORY; HUMAN; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; CROSS INFECTION; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS;

EID: 84858775612     PISSN: 02119536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4321/S0211-95362011000200007     Document Type: Review

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