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Clonal Spread of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli O128:H45 Strain in the Neonate Unit.
Japanese journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2016
Zeng Mei, Shi Wenjing, Chang Hailing, Wang Aimin, He Leiyan, Fu Pan, Xu Xuebin, Wang Chuanqing
Abstract excerpt
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) has the potential to cause nosocomial infantile diarrhea in a hospital setting. We detected 12 ETEC serotype O128:H45 isolates from diarrheal neonates in our neonatal unit from July through October 2012. These infants developed hospital-acquired and epidemiologically related diarrhea. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis and multilocus sequence typing of these 12...
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