Health care-associated infections in hematology-oncology patients with neutropenia: A method of surveillance

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1131-1133

  Ibrahim, Karim Yaqub ^a   Pierrotti, Ligia Camera ^a   Freire, Maristela Pinheiro ^a   Gutierrez, Patricia Pinheiro ^a   Duarte, Laiane Do Prado Gil ^a   Bellesso, Marcelo ^a   Pereira, Juliana ^a   De Alencar Fischer Chamone, Dalton ^a   Abdala, Edson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hospital infections

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEMATOLOGY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; ONCOLOGY WARD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; T CELL LEUKEMIA;

HOSPITAL INFECTIONS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPENIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887015811     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2013.03.299     Document Type: Article

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