Misidentification slanders Pantoea agglomerans as a serial killer

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 137-139

  Rezzonico, F ^a   Smits, T H M ^a   Duffy, B ^a  

^a AGROSCOPE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

APPLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; GYRB GENE; HUMAN; LETTER; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PEAR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PANTOEA;

EID: 84861660202     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2012.02.013     Document Type: Letter

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