Are community environmental surfaces near hospitals reservoirs for gram-negative nosocomial pathogens?

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 346-348

  Rose, Michael ^a   Landman, David ^a   Quale, John ^a  

^a Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter; Environmental contamination

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

ACINETOBACTER; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION;

BETA-LACTAMASES; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TYPING; NEW YORK CITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84897413965     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2013.12.025     Document Type: Article

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