Healthcare-associated bloodstream infections in a neonatal intensive care unit over a 20-year period (1992-2011): Trends in incidence, pathogens, and mortality

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 511-518

  Verstraete, Evelien ^a   Boelens, Jerina ^a   De Coen, Kris ^a   Claeys, Geert ^a   Vogelaers, Dirk ^a   Vanhaesebrouck, Piet ^a   Blot, Stijn ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFECTION CONTROL; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; BELGIUM; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; SEPSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CARBOLINE DERIVATIVE; MEBHYDROLIN NAPADISILATE;

BELGIUM; CARBOLINES; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; SEPSIS;

EID: 84898718338     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/675836     Document Type: Article

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