| Literature DB >> 17097458 |
Petra Gastmeier1, Sabine Stamm-Balderjahn, Sonja Hansen, Irina Zuschneid, Dorit Sohr, Michael Behnke, Ralf-Peter Vonberg, Henning Rüden.
Abstract
The outbreak database (http://www.outbreak-database.com), containing 1561 records of nosocomial outbreaks published in the medical literature in a systematic format, was used to identify the most frequent outbreak sources for the entire database as well as for specific outbreak pathogens. Overall, in 37.1%, no source was identified. The main sources identified were index patients (40.3%), followed by equipment and devices (21.1%), environment (19.8%), and personnel (15.8%).Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 17097458 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2006.01.014
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Infect Control ISSN: 0196-6553 Impact factor: 2.918