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An overview of various typing methods for clinical epidemiology of the emerging pathogen Stenotrophomonas maltophilia.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease - 1 Mar 2015
Gherardi Giovanni, Creti Roberta, Pompilio Arianna, Di Bonaventura Giovanni
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Typing of bacterial isolates has been used for decades to study local outbreaks as well as in national and international surveillances for monitoring newly emerging resistant clones. Despite being recognized as a nosocomial pathogen, the precise modes of transmission of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in health care settings are unknown. Due to the high genetic diversity observed among S. maltophilia clinical...
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