Device-associated infections among neonatal intensive care unit patients: Incidence and associated pathogens reported to the national healthcare Safety Network, 2006-2008

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1200-1206

  Hocevar, Susan N ^a,b   Edwards, Jonathan R ^a   Horan, Teresa C ^a   Morrell, Gloria C ^a   Iwamoto, Martha ^a   Lessa, Fernanda C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; METICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANDIDA; CATHETER INFECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; KLEBSIELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOGENESIS; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PSEUDOMONAS; PUBLIC HEALTH; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UMBILICAL CATHETER ASSOCIATED BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

BACTEREMIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; CANDIDIASIS; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; FUNGEMIA; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; UMBILICAL VEINS; UNITED STATES; VENTILATORS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84869176996     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/668425     Document Type: Article

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