Amount of usage and involvement in explosions not associated with increased contamination of prehospital vehicles with multi-drug-resistant organisms

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 107-109

  Lesho, Emil ^a,b   Ake, Julie ^b   Huang, Xiao Zhe ^b   Cash, Dana M ^b   Nikolich, Mikeljon ^b   Barber, Melissa ^c   Robens, Kathleen ^d   Garnett, Eric ^e   Lindler, Luther ^f   Scott, Paul ^a  

^a 3rd Infantry Division   (Iraq)

^b WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Department of Public Works   (United States)

^e Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center ^*  (Iraq)

^f Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster; Evacuation; High risk organism; Infection; Methicillin resistant Staphlococcus aureus; Military; MRSA; Multidrug resistant organism; Prehospital

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; DISASTER; DISEASE CARRIER; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EXPLOSION; HUMAN; MILITARY MEDICINE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; RISK; UNITED STATES; WAR;

AMBULANCES; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DISASTERS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EXPLOSIONS; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 - 2011; MILITARY MEDICINE; RISK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875957072     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X12001781     Document Type: Article

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