Healthcare outbreaks associated with a water reservoir and infection prevention strategies

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1423-1435

  Kanamori, Hajime ^a,b   Weber, David J ^a,b   Rutala, William A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

healthcare associated infections; outbreaks; water; waterborne outbreaks

Indexed keywords

DIALYSIS FLUID; DRINKING WATER; ICE; TAP WATER; WATER;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; AERATOR; ALCALIGENES; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; BACTEREMIA; BATH; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CATHETER INFECTION; CHIMERA; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHRYSEOBACTERIUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELIZABETHKINGIA; ELIZABETHKINGIA MENINGOSEPTICA; ENDOCARDITIS; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; EXOPHIALA; EXOPHIALA JEANSELMEI; EYE INFECTION; FUSARIOSIS; FUSARIUM; GASTROENTERITIS; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HALOMONAS; HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYDROTHERAPY; IMMERSION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFECTION PREVENTION; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG INFECTION; MASTITIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENINGITIS; MUCOR; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM GENAVENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM MUCOGENICUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SIMIAE; NOROVIRUS; OCHROBACTRUM; OCHROBACTRUM ANTHROPI; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SANITATION; SEPTICEMIA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SKIN INFECTION; SPHINGOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS; STENOTROPHOMONAS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; SURGICAL INFECTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRICHOSPORON; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; VIRUS; WATER BORNE DISEASE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY; WOUND INFECTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BACTERIUM; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; WATERBORNE DISEASES;

BACTERIA; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY; WATERBORNE DISEASES;

EID: 84965079610     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciw122     Document Type: Article

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