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THE incidence of infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, ordinarily an indifferent pathogen, is apparently rising in adult and pediatric patients1 , 2 in this country and in England.3 Premature infants are particularly susceptible to such infections,4 , 5 and, in them, disease is marked by a high case-fatality ratio. Therefore, prevention of infections in the nursery is of prime importance. It is hoped that this will be accomplished when the epidemiology of pseudomonas infections in nurseries is more clearly delineated.The epidemic described in this report occurred in a premature nursery in which Ps. aeruginosa was initially isolated from several environmental sites, none of . . .
Fierer et al. (Thu,) studied this question.