Article
Epidemiology and attack index of gram-negative bacteria causing invasive infection in three special-care neonatal units and risk factors for infection.
Infection - 1 Jan 2000
Fryklund B, Tullus K, Burman L G
Abstract excerpt
Of 13 consecutive episodes of gram-negative septicemia (Escherichia coli eight, Klebsiella oxytoca four, Klebsiella pneumoniae one) among 113 infants in three special-care neonatal units studied, five episodes were epidemiologically related according to a novel fingerprinting method for enterobac...
Topics
- Birth Weight
- Case-Control Studies
- Escherichia coli Infections
- Feces
- Female
- Follow-Up Studies
- Humans
- Infant
- Intensive Care Units, Neonatal
- Klebsiella
- Klebsiella Infections
- Klebsiella pneumoniae
- Male
- Phenotype
- Prospective Studies
- Risk Factors