Nosocomial Infections Caused by Sphingomonas paucimobilis: Clinical Features and Microbiological Characteristics
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Nosocomial infections caused by Sphingomonas paucimobilis: clinical features and microbiological characteristics.
From January 1995 to September 1996, 14 isolates of Sphingomonas paucimobilis, including 11 from clinical specimens from six patients with nosocomial infection and three from environmental sources, were collected. Two of the six patients had intravascular catheter-related bacteremia and one each had bacteremic biliary tract infection, urinary tract infection, ventilator-associated pneumonia, an...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/514595