A Nosocomial Outbreak of Clinical Sepsis in a Neonatal Care Unit (NCU) in Port-Au-Prince Haiti, July 2014 - September 2015
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PLoS CurrentsAbstract
Between July 2014 and September 2015, a neonatal care unit (NCU) in Port Au Prince, Haiti, experienced an outbreak of sepsis, most probably due to nosocomial transmission of Extended Beta Lactamase (ESBL) producing gram negative bacteria, included Klebsiella pneumoniae.Publisher
Public Library of SciencePubMed ID
29637010Language
enISSN
2157-3999ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1371/currents.outbreaks.58723332ec0de952adefd9a9b6905932
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