Comparative evaluation of an automated ribotyping system versus pulsed- field gel electrophoresis for epidemiological typing of clinical isolates of Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa from patients with recurrent gram-negative bacteremia

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-8

  Pfaller, Michael A ^a   Wendt, C ^a   Hollis, R J ^a   Wenzel, R P ^a   Fritschel, S J ^b   Neubauer, J J ^b   Herwaldt, L A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RIBOTYPING;

EID: 0030152418     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0732-8893(96)00082-X     Document Type: Article

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