Molecular epidemiology of pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates from Portuguese Central Hospital

Folia Microbiologica

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 540-546

  Fonseca, A P ^a,b   Correia, P ^c   Extremina, C I ^d   Sousa, J C ^e   Tenreiro, R ^c   Barros, H ^a  

^a University of Porto   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d INEB INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA BIOMÉDICA   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSIDADE FERNANDO PESSOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTUGAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STATISTICS; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTUGAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 65549157108     PISSN: 00155632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12223-008-0086-y     Document Type: Article

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