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Genotyping of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from cockroaches and human urine.
Journal of infection and chemotherapy : official journal of the Japan Society of Chemotherapy - 1 Oct 2010
Saitou Keiko, Furuhata Katsunori, Fukuyama Masafumi
Abstract excerpt
Molecular-epidemiological analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from cockroaches captured in hospitals and from patient urine was performed, employing randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis to investigate the usefulness of RAPD analysis. Four specific bands at positions of 993, 875, 521, and 402 bp were commonly detected using primer 272 in 16 of 45 cockroach-derived strains (35.6%), but not in...
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