Serratia marcescens: an outbreak experience

Affiliations

Petra Gastmeier. Front Microbiol. 2014.

. 2014 Mar 6:5:81.

doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00081. eCollection 2014.

¹ Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Health, Charité - University Medicine Berlin Berlin, Germany.

No abstract available

Keywords: Serratia marcescens; infection control; multiresistance; neonates; outbreak.

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