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Controlling the clonal spread of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection.
Infection control and hospital epidemiology - 1 Jun 2008
Pereira Graziella H, Levin Anna S, Oliveira Helenice Bosco, Moretti Maria Luiza
Abstract excerpt
To evaluate nosocomial infections due to imipenem-resistant and imipenem-susceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a case-control study that included genotyping was performed. Hospitalization for more than 15 days was independently associated with infection with an imipenem-resistant organism. Sixty-seven percent of the imipenem-resistant isolates analyzed and 23% of the imipenem-susceptible isolates analyzed belonged...
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