Article
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...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Child
- Chromosomes, Bacterial
- Chronic Disease
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Female
- Genotype
- Humans
- Longitudinal Studies
- Male
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Pseudomonas Infections
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Pyocins