Study of Septicemia due to Enterobacter cloacae in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
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Arbitrarily primed PCR, ribotyping, and plasmid pattern analysis applied to investigation of a nosocomial outbreak due to Enterobacter cloacae in a neonatal intensive care unit.
In December 1992, Enterobacter cloacae was isolated from the oropharynx and respiratory tract of six ventilated neonates hospitalized in the intensive care unit (ICU) of our hospital. To establish the spread of the outbreak, 41 strains of E. cloacae were analyzed for genotypic markers by three methods: plasmid profile analysis, ribotyping with EcoRI or PvuII endonuclease, and arbitrarily primed...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1884-569X,0387-5911
DOI: 10.11150/kansenshogakuzasshi1970.71.318