Cross-Infection Due to Imipenem-Resistant Bacteroides fragilis Associated with a Totally Implantable Venous Port

Four patients in an oncology ward developed Bacteroides fragilis bacteremia over a 12-day period. Cross-infection between two of them, due to an imipenem-resistant strain, was demonstrated by epidemiological investigation and genotypic typing methods (arbitrarily primed PCR fingerprinting and nucleo...

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Main Authors: Arpin, Corinne, Dubois, Véronique, Rogues, Anne-Marie, Menard, Fanny, Gavinet, Anne-Marie, Maire, Jean-Pierre, Gachie, Jean-Pierre, Bezian, Marie-Christine, Quentin, Claudine
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2002
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Bacteriology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC120668/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12149371
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.40.8.3032-3034.2002
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