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Usefulness of genotyping with microsatellite markers to investigate hospital-acquired invasive aspergillosis.
The Journal of hospital infection - 1 Aug 1999
Bart-Delabesse E, Cordonnier C, Bretagne S
Abstract excerpt
To assess whether invasive aspergillosis (IA) was hospital acquired, Aspergillus fumigatus isolates, obtained during a one-year study from inpatients with haematological diseases and IA and from their environment, were genotyped using microsatellite markers. The analysis of 62 environmental isolates showed an extremely diverse A. fumigatus population with 43 genotypes represented only once. Eight genotypes were...
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