Epidemiological fingerprinting of Enterobacter cloacae by small-fragment restriction endonuclease analysis and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of genomic restriction fragments.

Abstract excerpt

A cluster of infections caused by Enterobacter cloacae was observed among preterm neonates in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of a pediatric hospital in Osnabrück, Germany. The presence of similar antimicrobial susceptibility patterns among the bacterial isolates prompted an investigation t...

Topics

• Cross Infection
• DNA Fingerprinting
• DNA Restriction Enzymes
• Disease Outbreaks
• Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
• Enterobacter cloacae
• Enterobacteriaceae Infections
• Genotype
• Germany
• Humans
• Infant, Newborn
• Infant, Premature
• Infant, Premature, Diseases
• Intensive Care Units, Neonatal
• Microbial Sensitivity Tests
• Phenotype
• Plasmids
• Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length