Two consecutive outbreaks of stenotrophomonas Maltophilia (Xanthomonas Maltophilia) in an intensive-care unit defined by restriction fragment-length polymorphism typing

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 553-556

  Alfieri, Nancy ^a,b   Ramotar, Karam ^a   Armstrong, Pamela ^a   Spornitz, Mary E ^a   Ross, Glenda ^a   Winnick, James ^a   Cook, D Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Calgary District Hospital Group   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; XANTHOMONAS;

AGED; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; XANTHOMONAS;

EID: 0033173145     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501668     Document Type: Article

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