Use of the DiversiLab® semiautomated repetitive-sequence-based polymerase chain reaction for epidemiologic analysis on Acinetobacter baumannii isolates in different Italian hospitals

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-7

  Carretto, Edoardo ^a   Barbarini, Daniela ^a   Farina, Claudio ^b   Grosini, Alessia ^a   Nicoletti, Pierluigi ^c   Manso, Esther ^d  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^b SAN CARLO BORROMEO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter baumannii; Automated repetitive sequence based PCR; Automated ribotyping; DiversiLab Microbial Typing System ; Italy; Microbiology; Molecular epidemiology; RiboPrinter ; Susceptibility testing

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; ITALY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 36849084586     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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