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Heterogeneous Serratia marcescens genotypes from a nosocomial pediatric outbreak.
Chest - 1 Jan 1997
Cimolai N, Trombley C, Wensley D, LeBlanc J
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OBJECTIVE: Define the applicability of a rapid molecular typing scheme to study the epidemiology of a Serratia marcescens outbreak. DESIGN: With the assistance of a simple bacterial lysis technique, isolates of S marcescens from a putative outbreak were genotyped with the polymerase chain reaction technology for which primers were chosen on the basis of previously defined enterobacterial repetitive intergenic...
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