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Microbial tracking of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates in a pediatric hospital setting.
International journal of immunopathology and pharmacology - 1 Jan 2000
Bernaschi P, Del Chierico F, Petrucca A, Argentieri A, Ciofi Degli Atti M, Ciliento G, Carletti M, Muraca M, Locatelli F, Putignani L
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the clonal relatedness of seven multi-drug-resistant (MDR) Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates, as well as three susceptible K. pneumoniae isolates collected during hospital outbreaks and outbreak-related microbiological surveillance, respectively. The relatedness among K. pneumoniae isolates was assessed by pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and automated repetitive-sequence-based PCR (rep-PCR)...
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