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Epidemiology of chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in cystic fibrosis.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Dec 1994
Römling U, Fiedler B, Bosshammer J, Grothues D, Greipel J, von der Hardt H, Tümmler B
Abstract excerpt
The epidemiology of chronic colonization of airways with Pseudomonas aeruginosa was monitored in 44 patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) by DraI/SpeI macrorestriction analyses of 489 isolates. Sequential P. aeruginosa isolates (144) that had been collected from 32 CF patients over < or = 2.5 years were investigated, and 12 patients were followed for 8 years after onset of colonization. Forty-eight different...
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