Post-outbreak investigation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa faucet contamination by quantitative polymerase chain reaction and environmental factors affecting positivity

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1337-1343

  Bédard, Emilie ^a,b   Laferrière, Céline ^c   Charron, Dominique ^a   Lalancette, Cindy ^b   Renaud, Christian ^c   Desmarais, Nadia ^c   Déziel, Eric ^b   Prévost, Michèle ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INRS INSTITUT ARMAND FRAPPIER   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

AERATOR; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EPIDEMIC; FOLLOW UP; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; FOMITE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CANADA; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FOMITES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84958534236     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.168     Document Type: Article

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