Hospital Outbreak of Pulmonary and Cutaneous Zygomycosis due to Contaminated Linen Items from Substandard Laundry

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 714-721

  Cheng, Vincent C C ^a,b   Chen, Jonathan H K ^a   Wong, Sally C Y ^a   Leung, Sally S M ^a   So, Simon Y C ^a   Lung, David C ^c   Lee, Wan Mui ^b   Trendell Smith, Nigel J ^b   Chan, Wai Ming ^b   Ng, Desmond ^d   To, Liza ^c   Lie, Albert K W ^b   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^c DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Hong Kong)

^d HOSPITAL AUTHORITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Laundry; Linens; Outbreak; Rhizopus microsporus; Zygomycosis

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ADULT; AGED; AIR SAMPLER; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOTHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTANEOUS ZYGOMYCOSIS; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INCIDENCE; INHALATION; LAUNDRY; MALE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ZYGOMYCOSIS; RHIZOPUS MICROSPORUS; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLER; SAMPLING; SCREENING; SKIN; TEACHING HOSPITAL; ZYGOMYCETES; ZYGOMYCOSIS; BED; CHINA; CROSS INFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; MICROBIOLOGY; RHIZOPUS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; BEDDING AND LINENS; CHINA; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LAUNDRY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; RHIZOPUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ZYGOMYCOSIS;

EID: 84960089660     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ1006     Document Type: Article

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