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Phenotypic and molecular characterization of nosocomial K. pneumoniae isolates by ribotyping.
Advances in medical sciences - 1 Mar 2015
Ahmad Shamweel, Abulhamd Ashraf
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PURPOSE: To characterize clinical isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae by phenotypic and genotypic methods. MATERIAL/METHODS: Over a 12-month period, 52 isolates of K. pneumoniae were isolated. Of these 52 isolates, 7 were isolated over a period of 21 days from a suspected outbreak in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and 45 from sporadic cases occurring in different wards of hospital were analysed. RESULTS:...
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