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Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis genomic fingerprinting of hospital Escherichia coli bacteraemia isolates.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jun 1997
Blackwood R A, Rode C K, Pierson C L, Bloch C A
Abstract excerpt
Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), because of the increased sensitivity it affords over other methods of bacterial genotyping, represents a potentially powerful tool for the characterisation of isolates from hospital infections. Genomic fingerprinting by PFGE was applied to all clinical isolates of Escherichia coli obtained from blood during a 6-month period (78 isolates, 58 patients) at the University of...
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