Use of MLVA-16 typing to trace the source of a laboratory-acquired Brucella infection

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 274-276

  Marianelli, C ^a   Petrucca, A ^b   Pasquali, P ^a   Ciuchini, F ^a   Papadopoulou, S ^b   Cipriani, P ^b,c  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANAMNESIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOSAFETY; BIOTYPE; BLOOD CULTURE; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE REPORT; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; ITALY; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPE;

BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LABORATORY INFECTION; LABORATORY PERSONNEL;

EID: 40649119841     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2008.01.003     Document Type: Letter

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