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Surveillance of surgical site infections by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and strain characterization in Tanzanian hospitals does not provide proof for a role of hospital water plumbing systems in transmission

BACKGROUND: The role of hospital water systems in the development of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) surgical site infections (SSIs) in low-income countries is barely studied. This study characterized P. aeruginosa isolates from patients and water in order to establish possible epidemiologica...

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Autores principales: Moremi, Nyambura, Claus, Heike, Vogel, Ulrich, Mshana, Stephen E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5461769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28593044
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-017-0216-x