Interinstitutional and intrainstitutional transmission of a strain of Acinetobacter baumannii detected by molecular analysis: Comparison of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and repetitive sequence-based polymerase chain reaction

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 981-983

  Saeed, S ^a   Fakih, M G ^a   Riederer, K ^a   Shah, A R ^a   Khatib, Riad ^a  

^a ST JOHN HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG TERM CARE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 33749038021     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/507286     Document Type: Article

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