Clonal multidrug-resistant Corynebacterium striatum within a nosocomial environment, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 23-29

  Pereira Baio, Paulo Victor ^a,d,e   Franceschi Mota, Higor ^a   D'avila Freitas, Andréa ^a,b   Rama Gomes, Débora Leandro ^a,f   Nunes Ramos, Juliana ^a,d   Oliveira Sant'Anna, Lincoln ^a   Cristina Souza, Mônica ^a   Ferreira Camello, Thereza Cristina ^a,c   Hirata, Raphael ^a   Viana Vieira, Verônica ^d   Mattos Guaraldi, Ana Luíza ^a  

^a Imunologia e Patologia   (Brazil)

^b Unidade Docente Assistencial de Doenças Infecciosas e Parasitárias   (Brazil)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITÁRIO PEDRO ERNESTO   (Brazil)

^d National Institute for Quality Control in Health   (Brazil)

^e Ministério da Defesa   (Brazil)

^f INSTITUTO FEDERAL DE EDUCAÇÃO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Corynebacterium striatum; Multidrug resistant clones; Nosocomial outbreak; PFGE

Indexed keywords

CORYNEBACTERIUM STRIATUM;

EID: 84875416297     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762013000100004     Document Type: Article

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