Twenty-three years of Klebsiella phage typing: A review of phage typing of 12 clusters of nosocomial infections, and a comparison of phage typing with K serotyping

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 233-238

  Sechter, I ^a   Mestre, F ^b   Hansen, D S ^c,d  

^a Central Laboratories   (Israel)

^b Servicio de Microbiologia   (Spain)

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^d HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

K typing; Klebsiella; Phage typing

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNTER IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; KLEBSIELLA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROTYPING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER; KLEBSIELLA;

EID: 0034191853     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0691.2000.00070.x     Document Type: Article

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