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Helicobacter cinaedi and Helicobacter fennelliae transmission in a hospital from 2008 to 2012.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jul 2013
Rimbara Emiko, Mori Shigetarou, Kim Hyun, Matsui Mari, Suzuki Satowa, Takahashi Shunji, Yamamoto Satoshi, Mukai Masaya, Shibayama Keigo
Abstract excerpt
Forty-six Helicobacter cinaedi isolates from the same hospital were analyzed by multilocus sequence typing. Most H. cinaedi isolates exhibited clonal complex 9 and were mainly isolated from immunocompromised patients in the same ward. Three Helicobacter fennelliae isolates were obtained from the same ward and exhibited the same pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns. All isolates were resistant to...
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