Cockroaches as potential vectors of nosocomial infections

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 979-984

  Pai, Hsiu Hua ^a   Chen, Wei Chen ^a   Peng, Chien Fang ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BLATTA GERMANICA; BLATTELLIDAE; COCKROACH; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGUS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PERIPLANETA; PERIPLANETA AMERICANA; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TAIWAN;

ANIMALS; COCKROACHES; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE; FUNGI; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TAIWAN;

EID: 9244246255     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502330     Document Type: Article

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