Pseudomonas aeruginosa respiratory tract Infections associated with contaminated ultrasound gel used for transesophageal echocardiography - Michigan, December 2011-January 2012

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 61, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 262-264

  Chittick, Paul ^a   Russo, Victoria ^a   Sims, Matthew ^a   Oleszkowicz, Susan ^a   Sawarynski, Kara ^a   Powell, Kimberly ^a   Makin, Jacob ^a   Darnell, Elizabeth ^a   Robinson Dunn, Barbara ^a   Boyanton, Bobby L ^a   Band, Jeffrey ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EQUIPMENT; GEL; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; GELS; HUMANS; MICHIGAN; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84861731998     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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