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Wound and soft tissue infections of Serratia marcescens in patients receiving wound care: A health care-associated outbreak.
American journal of infection control - 1 Apr 2017
Us Ebru, Kutlu Huseyin H, Tekeli Alper, Ocal Duygu, Cirpan Sevilay, Memikoglu Kemal O
Abstract excerpt
We described a health care-associated Serratia marcescens outbreak of wound and soft tissue infection lasting approximately 11 months at Ankara University Ibni Sina Hospital. After identification of S marcescens strains from the clinical and environmental samples, and their susceptibility testing to antimicrobial agents, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) was performed to detect molecular epidemiologic...
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