Trichosporon Asahii among intensive care unit patients at a medical center in Jamaica

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 638-641

  Fanfair, Robyn Neblett ^a   Heslop, Orville ^b   Etienne, Kizee ^a   Rainford, Lois ^b   Roy, Monika ^a   Gade, Lalitha ^a   Peterson, Joyce ^a   O'Connell, Heather ^c   Noble Wang, Judith ^c   Balajee, S Arunmozhi ^a   Brandt, Mary E ^a   Lindo, John F ^b   Park, Benjamin J ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CHILD; COLONOSCOPY; DISINFECTION; DNA EXTRACTION; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FOMITE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; GENOTYPE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JAMAICA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MYCOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; TRICHOSPORON ASAHII;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; FOMITES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; JAMAICA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRICHOSPORON; TRICHOSPORONOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877642942     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/670633     Document Type: Article

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