Using an intensified infection prevention intervention to control carbapenemase- producing Enterobacteriaceae at a Thai center

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 960-961

  Apisarnthanarak, Anucha ^a   Kiratisin, Pattarachai ^b   Khawcharoenporn, Thana ^a   Warren, David K ^c  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Thailand)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEMASE;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD; BODY FLUID; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GLOVE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERHOSPITAL COOPERATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; NURSE PATIENT RATIO; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; THAILAND;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; THAILAND;

EID: 84864947506     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/667386     Document Type: Letter

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