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Phenotypic variation of clinical Serratia marcescens isolates repeatedly recovered from individual patients.
Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie : international journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jun 1996
Traub W H, Eiden A, Leonhard B, Bauer D
Abstract excerpt
A total of 129 selected isolates of Serratia marcescens which had been recovered from 50 patients during the 1980-1995 period and which revealed phenotypic variation in terms of bacteriocin (phage tail) susceptibility, carbon source assimilation, or serotype, were reexamined with these three phenotypic methods. Seven isolates (5.4%) were bacteriocin nontypable; all 129 isolates utilized carbon sources and could...
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