Article
Risk of cross-colonization and infection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a holiday camp for cystic fibrosis patients.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Mar 1995
Hoogkamp-Korstanje J A, Meis J F, Kissing J, van der Laag J, Melchers W J
Abstract excerpt
The risk of cross-colonization and subsequent infection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in holiday camps for cystic fibrosis patients was studied in 91 children by culturing sputum at their arrival, at their departure, 2 months later, and at regular intervals thereafter. The isolated strains were subjected to serotyping, phage typing, pyocin typing, and genotyping by random amplified polymorphic DNA fingerprinting-PCR....
Topics
- Adolescent
- Bacteriophage Typing
- Base Sequence
- Camping
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Community-Acquired Infections
- Cystic Fibrosis
- DNA Fingerprinting
- DNA, Bacterial
- Female