Outbreak of Moraxella catarrhalis in a respiratory unit.
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Outbreak of Moraxella catarrhalis in a respiratory unit.
The clinical and epidemiological features of an outbreak of nosocomial Moraxella catarrhalis infection in a respiratory unit are described. Six isolates from five patients were shown to be indistinguishable by immunoblotting and restriction endonuclease analysis and different from 11 other, unrelated clinical strains.
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.48.1.91