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The Antibiotic sensitivity of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in a 5-year period and investigation of clonal outbreak with PFGE.
Journal of infection in developing countries - 31 Jul 2019
Çalışkan Ahmet, Çopur Çicek Ayşegül, Aydogan Ejder Nebahat, Karagöz Alper, Kirişci Özlem, Kılıç Selçuk
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INTRODUCTION: Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, which is able to form a biofilm, has mostly been related to catheters when it is the agent in hospital infections; these infections generally present as bacteremia and pneumonia, which may progress with complications and result in death. METHODOLOGY: The study included 153 S. maltophilia strains isolated from clinical samples sent to our hospital laboratory between 1...
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