Article
An outbreak of penicillin resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae investigated by a polymerase chain reaction based genotyping method.
Journal of clinical pathology - 1 Oct 1997
Gillespie S H, McHugh T D, Hughes J E, Dickens A, Kyi M S, Kelsey M
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: To characterise the genotypes of penicillin resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae infecting patients in a care of the elderly ward and to study its transmission in a hospital environment. METHODS: Isolates of S pneumoniae were cultured from specimens obtained from patients who had been admitte...
Topics
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Bacterial Proteins
- Carrier Proteins
- Cross Infection
- DNA, Bacterial
- Disease Outbreaks
- Genotype
- Hexosyltransferases
- Humans
- Male
- Muramoylpentapeptide Carboxypeptidase
- Penicillin Resistance
- Penicillin-Binding Proteins
- Penicillins
- Peptidyl Transferases
- Pneumococcal Infections
- Polymerase Chain Reaction