Paramyxovirus Outbreak in a Long-Term Care Facility: The Challenges of Implementing Infection Control Practices in a Congregate Setting

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 399-404

  Spires, Steven Schaeffer ^a   Keipp Talbot, H ^a   Pope, Carolyn A ^b   Talbot, Thomas R ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Veteran's Affairs Tennessee Valley Healthcare System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COUGHING; DEMENTIA; DYSPNEA; EPIDEMIC; FATIGUE; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA A; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALAISE; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHINORRHEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; HOME FOR THE AGED; HOSPITALIZATION; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; NURSING; NURSING HOME; PARAMYXOVIRUS INFECTION; PNEUMOVIRUS; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LONG-TERM CARE; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; NURSING HOMES; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES;

EID: 85015411594     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2016.316     Document Type: Article

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