Staphylococcus aureus reservoirs and transmission routes in a portuguese neonatal intensive care unit: A 30-month surveillance study

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 116-124

  Conceição, Teresa ^a   Aires De Sousa, Marta ^b   Miragaia, Maria ^a   Paulino, Elsa ^c   Barroso, Rosalina ^c   Brito, Maria João ^c   Sardinha, Teresa ^c   Sancho, Luísa ^c   Carreiro, Helena ^c   De Sousa, Germano ^c   MacHado, Maria Do Céu ^c   De Lencastre, Hermínia ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b Escola Superior de Saúde da Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa ^*  (Portugal)

^c HOSPITAL FERNANDO FONSECA   (Portugal)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; FLUCLOXACILLIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; PARENT; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; METHICILLIN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PORTUGAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84859566470     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2011.0182     Document Type: Article

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