Acinetobacter baumannii in intensive care unit: A novel system to study clonal relationship among the isolates

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Fontana, Carla ^a,b   Favaro, Marco ^a   Minelli, Silvia ^b   Bossa, Maria Cristina ^b   Testore, Gian ^c   Leonardis, Francesca ^c   Natoli, Silvia ^c   Favalli, Cartesio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b Clinical Microbiology Laboratories   (Italy)

^c TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEM; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELL CLONE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIC; EVALUATION; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; CLINICAL LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; CLONE CELLS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 48149105112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-8-79     Document Type: Article

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