A six-month Serratia marcescens outbreak in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit;Brote epidémico por Serratia marcescens en una Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Neonatales

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 645-651

  Morillo, Áurea ^a   González, Verónica ^a   Aguayo, Josefa ^a   Carreño, Concepción ^a   Torres, María José ^a,b   Jarana, Daniel ^a   Artacho, María José ^a,b   Jiménez, Francisco ^a   Conde, Manuel ^a   Aznar, Javier ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Disease outbreak; Healthcare associated infection; Intensive Care Units; Neonatal; Nosocomial Infection; Serratia marcescens

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CASE FATALITY RATE; CLEANING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTACT ISOLATION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALE; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NEWBORN; PNEUMONIA; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; SERRATIA INFECTION; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CROSS INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SERRATIA INFECTIONS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84999836320     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: 15781852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eimc.2016.01.006     Document Type: Article

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