Genotypic and phenotypic analysis of Enterobacter sakazakii strains from an outbreak resulting in fatalities in a neonatal intensive care unit in France

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3979-3985

  Caubilla Barron, J ^a   Hurrell, E ^a   Townsend, S ^a   Cheetham, P ^a   Loc Carrillo, C ^a   Fayet, O ^b   Prere M F ^b   Forsythe, S J ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UPS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; PIPERACILLIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER SAKAZAKII; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BETA-LACTAMASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROBACTER SAKAZAKII; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENES, RRNA; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTER SAKAZAKII;

EID: 37249035981     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01075-07     Document Type: Article

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