"Down the drain": Carbapenem-resistant bacteria in intensive care unit patients and handwashing sinks

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 198, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 267-269

  Kotsanas, Despina ^a   Wijesooriya, W R P L I ^a   Korman, Tony M ^a   Gillespie, Elizabeth E ^b   Wright, Louise ^b   Snook, Kylie ^b   Williams, Natalie ^b   Bell, Jan M ^c   Li, Hua Y ^d   Stuart, Rhonda L ^a,e  

^a Infectious Diseases Department   (Australia)

^b Infection Control and Epidemiology   (Australia)

^c WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; TAP WATER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HANDWASHING SINK; HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MBL GENE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

AUSTRALIA; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, HOSPITAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HAND DISINFECTION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84876775034     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja12.11757     Document Type: Article

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