Validation of use of whole-cell repetitive extragenic palindromic sequence-based PCR (REP-PCR) for typing strains belonging to the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-Acinetobacter baumannii complex and application of the method to the investigation of a hospital outbreak.

Acinetobacter spp. are being reported with increasing frequency as causes of nosocomial infection. In order to identify reservoirs of infection as quickly as possible, a rapid typing method that can differentiate epidemic strains from environmental and nonepidemic strains is needed. In 1993, a clust...

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Autors principals: Snelling, A M, Gerner-Smidt, P, Hawkey, P M, Heritage, J, Parnell, P, Porter, C, Bodenham, A R, Inglis, T
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: 1996
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC228981/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8727902
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