Serratia marcescens: an outbreak experience
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Serratia marcescens: an outbreak experience
One year ago, I had one of the worst experiences a hospital epidemiologist can have: a Serratia marcescens outbreak in a neonatal department with a total of 21 colonized or infected newborns. This outbreak caused headlines in all national TV channels and newspapers for at least one week in Germany. What happened? On October 8th, we identified two newborns with S. marcescens bloodstream infectio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Microbiology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1664-302X
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00081