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Genotypic and phenotypic characteristics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates associated with ulcerative keratitis.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jun 2005
Winstanley Craig, Kaye Stephen B, Neal Timothy J, Chilton Helen J, Miksch Silvia, Hart C Anthony, And The Microbiology Ophthalmic Group
Abstract excerpt
A collection of 63 isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa associated with ulcerative keratitis, collected from six centres in England, were typed using serotyping and random amplified polymorphic DNA-PCR, and screened for several variable virulence-related genotypes and phenotypes. Sixty-one percent of the isolates were of either serotype O1 or serotype O11, but there was no evidence for a common clone. The majority...
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