How to Select and Interpret Molecular Strain Typing Methods for Epidemiological Studies of Bacterial Infections: A Review for Healthcare Epidemiologists

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 426-439

  Tenover, Fred C ^a,h   Arbeit, Robert D ^b   Goering, Richard V ^c   Murray, Barbara E ^d   Persing, David H ^e   Pfaller, Michael A ^f   Weinstein, Robert A ^g  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^e MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^g Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

^h CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CROSS INFECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 0031156837     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141252     Document Type: Article

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