Long-term evolution of multiple outbreaks of Serratia marcescens bacteremia in a neonatal intensive care unit

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1298-1300

  Villa, Jennifer ^a   Alba, Concepción ^a   Barrado, Laura ^a   Sanz, Francisca ^a   Del Castillo, Elvira Gómez ^a   Viedma, Esther ^a   Otero, Joaquín R ^a   Chaves, Fernando ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Molecular epidemiology; Neonatal intensive care unit; Neonates; Outbreaks; Serratia marcescens

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERRATIA INFECTION; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

BACTEREMIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; SERRATIA INFECTIONS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 84870884257     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e318267f441     Document Type: Article

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