Epidemiology and attack index of gram-negative bacteria causing invasive infection in three special-care neonatal units and risk factors for infection.

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Of 13 consecutive episodes of gram-negative septicemia (Escherichia coli eight, Klebsiella oxytoca four, Klebsiella pneumoniae one) among 113 infants in three special-care neonatal units studied, five episodes were epidemiologically related according to a novel fingerprinting method for enterobacteria. In ten episodes the invasive phenotype was found in the fecal flora of up to 54% of the fellow infants in the...

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