Genotypic analysis by 27A DNA fingerprinting of Candida albicans strains isolated during an outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 281-284

  Boccia, Stefania ^a   Posteraro, Brunella ^a   La Sorda, Marilena ^a   Vento, Giovanni ^a   Matassa, Piero Giuseppe ^a   Tempera, Alessia ^a   Petrucci, Stefano ^a   Fadda, Giovanni ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA ISOLATION; DNA PROBE; EPIDEMIC; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; ITALY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, FUNGAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS, RELIGIOUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROME;

EID: 0035999829     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502052     Document Type: Article

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