Prevalences of the enterobacter cloacae complex and its phylogenetic derivatives in the nosocomial environment

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2951-2955

  Kremer, A ^a,c   Hoffmann, H ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b ASKLEPIOS FACHKLINIKEN MÜNCHEN GAUTING   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL PREVALENCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CLADISTICS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLONAL VARIATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER AMNIGENUS; ENTEROBACTER ASBURIAE; ENTEROBACTER CANCEROGENUS; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTER COWANII; ENTEROBACTER DISSOLVENS; ENTEROBACTER GERGOVIAE; ENTEROBACTER HORMAECHEI; ENTEROBACTER INTERMEDIUS; ENTEROBACTER LUDGWIGII; ENTEROBACTER NIMIPRESSURALIS; ENTEROBACTER OHARAE; ENTEROBACTER PYRINUS; ENTEROBACTER STEIGERWALTII; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HSP60 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CHAPERONIN 60; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84868004525     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: 14354373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-012-1646-2     Document Type: Article

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