Molecular epidemiology provides evidence of genotypic heterogeneity of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa serotype O:12 outbreak isolates from a pediatric hospital

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3226-3229

  Bingen, Edouard ^a   Bonacorsi, Stephane ^a   Rohrlich, Pierre ^a   Duval, Michel ^a   Lhopital, Sylvie ^a   Brahimi, Naima ^a   Vilmer, Etienne ^a   Goering, Richard V ^b  

^a HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SEROTYPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0029968978     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.12.3226-3229.1996     Document Type: Article

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