Article
Pseudomonas aeruginosa: study of antibiotic resistance and molecular typing in hospital infection cases in a neonatal intensive care unit from Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil.
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - 1 Apr 2002
Loureiro M M, de Moraes B A, Mendonca V L F, Quadra M R R, Pinheiro G S, Asensi M D
Abstract excerpt
This study had the objective of to analyze the demographic and bacteriologic data of 32 hospitalized newborns in an neonatal intensive care unit of a public maternity hospital in Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil, seized by Pseudomonas aeruginosa sepsis during a period ranged from July 1997 to July 1999, and to determine the antimicrobial resistance percentage, serotypes and pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE)...
Topics
- Brazil
- Case-Control Studies
- Cross Infection
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Female
- Humans
- Infant, Newborn
- Intensive Care Units, Neonatal
- Male
- Mutation
- Pseudomonas Infections
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa