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Antibiotic susceptibility patterns and clones of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Swedish ICUs.
Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2008
Erlandsson Marcus, Gill Hans, Nordlinder David, Giske Christian G, Jonas Daniel, Nilsson Lennart E, Walther Sten, Hanberger Håkan
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa is 1 of the bacteria most adaptive to anti-bacterial treatment. Previous studies have shown nosocomial spread and transmission of clonal strains of P. aeruginosa in European hospitals. In this study we investigated antibiotic susceptibility and clonality in 101 P. aeruginosa isolates from 88 patients admitted to 8 Swedish ICUs during 2002. We also compared phenotypes and genotypes of P....
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