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Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a neonatal intensive care unit: molecular epidemiology and infection control measures.
BMC infectious diseases - 22 May 2009
Crivaro Valeria, Di Popolo Anna, Caprio Alessandro, Lambiase Antonietta, Di Resta Mario, Borriello Tonia, Scarcella Alda, Triassi Maria, Zarrilli Raffaele
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a non-fermentative, gram-negative rod, is responsible for a wide variety of clinical syndromes in NICU patients, including sepsis, pneumonia, meningitis, diarrhea, conjunctivitis and skin infections. An increased number of infections and colonisations by P. aeruginosa has been observed in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of our university hospital between 2005 and 2007....
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