Evaluation of potential environmental contamination sources for the presence of multidrug-resistant bacteria linked to wound infections in combat casualties

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 905-911

  Keen III, Edward F ^a   Mende, Katrin ^a,b   Yun, Heather C ^a,b   Aldous, Wade K ^c   Wallum, Timothy E ^d   Guymon, Charles H ^d   Cole, David W ^e   Crouch, Helen K ^a   Griffith, Matthew E ^a,b   Thompson, Bernadette L ^a   Rose, Joel T ^e   Murray, Clinton K ^a,c  

^a SAN ANTONIO MILITARY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Army Medical Department Center and School   (United States)

^d US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e BLANCHFIELD ARMY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER LWOFFII; AEROSOL; AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BATTLE INJURY; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EQUIPMENT; ESCHERICHIA; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IRAQ; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RALSTONIA; SERRATIA; SOIL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VIBRIO; WOUND INFECTION;

AEROSOLS; AFGHANISTAN; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FIELD HOSPITALS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; IRAQ; OPERATING ROOMS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES; WAR;

EID: 84864923689     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/667382     Document Type: Article

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