Transmission of Citrobacter koseri from mother to infant documented by ribotyping and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 63-67

  Papasian, Christopher J ^a   Kinney, Janet ^a,b   Coffman, Stacy ^b   Hollis, Richard J ^b   Pfaller, Michael A ^b  

^a TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; DOPAMINE; GENTAMICIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CITROBACTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NEWBORN INFECTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CITROBACTER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PLACENTA; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 0030265657     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(96)00177-0     Document Type: Article

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