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MLST reveals potentially high-risk international clones of Enterobacter cloacae.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Jan 2015
Izdebski R, Baraniak A, Herda M, Fiett J, Bonten M J M, Carmeli Y, Goossens H, Hryniewicz W, Brun-Buisson C, Gniadkowski M
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OBJECTIVES: To perform the first multinational Enterobacter cloacae clonality study, using the MLST scheme newly developed in Japan. METHODS: The analysis included 195 rectal carriage E. cloacae isolates resistant to expanded-spectrum cephalosporins (ESCs), collected from patients in 12 hospital units across Europe and Israel. All of the isolates were typed by PFGE and 173 isolates were subjected to MLST. ESC...
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