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New genotyping method discovers sustained nosocomial Pseudomonas aeruginosa outbreak in an intensive care burn unit.
The Journal of hospital infection - 1 Sept 2016
Tissot F, Blanc D S, Basset P, Zanetti G, Berger M M, Que Y-A, Eggimann P, Senn L
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BACKGROUND: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a leading cause of healthcare-associated infections in the intensive care unit (ICU). AIM: To investigate an unexplained increase in the incidence of P. aeruginosa recovered from clinical samples in the ICU over a two-year period. METHODS: After unsuccessful epidemiological investigation by conventional tools, P. aeruginosa clinical isolates of all patients hospitalized...
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