Three Consecutive Outbreaks of Serratia marcescens in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Clinical Infectious Diseases - Tập 34 Số 6 - Trang 767-773 - 2002
Felix Fleisch1, Urs Zimmermann2, Reinhard Zbinden3, Gian Bischoff2, Romaine Arlettaz2, Katharina Waldvogel4, David Nadal5, C. Ruef1
11Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Switzerland
22Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Clinic for Neonatology, Switzerland
33Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland
44Intensive Care Unit, Division of Infectious Diseases, University Children's Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland
55Division of Infectious Diseases, University Children's Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland

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