Outbreak of Escherichia coli infections associated with a contaminated transesophageal echocardiography probe

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1121-1123

  Bancroft, Elizabeth A ^a   English, L'Tanya ^a   Terashita, Dawn ^a   Yasuda, Lori ^b  

^a LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Dept of Community Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTAMINATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; LETTER; MECHANICAL PROBE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPUTUM CULTURE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISINFECTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HEART DISEASES; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84884186380     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/673160     Document Type: Letter

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