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http://hdl.handle.net/11054/37| Title: | Investigation of an apparent cluster of klebsiella pneumoniae bacteremias using random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis. |
| Authors: | Hurley, James C. Russell, Edward G. Harrington, Glenys Spicer, W. John |
| Issue Date: | 1996 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
| Place of publication: | Chicago |
| Publication Title: | Infection Control |
| Volume: | 17 |
| Issue: | 11 |
| Start Page: | 743 |
| End Page: | 745 |
| Abstract: | A cluster of bacteremia episodes with Klebsiella pneumoniae was noted in patients in a hematology-oncology ward during a 3-week period. Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis, a novel technique for generating chromosomal fingerprints from bacterial isolates, was used as an aid to the epidemiological investigation of this cluster. For each of the two patients from whom multiple isolates had been obtained, identical RAPD patterns were observed in the serial isolates, even for a patient where the isolates had different biotypes. Isolates from different patients gave distinct patterns. Random amplified polymorphic DNA was found to be a useful typing technique for this cluster of K pneumonia bacteremias. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11054/37 |
| ISSN: | 0899-823X |
| Internal ID Number: | 00024 |
| Health Subject: | BACTEREMIA - MICROBIOLOGY CROSS INFECTION - MICROBIOLOGY HUMANS INFECTION CONTROL KLESIELLA INFECTIONS - MICROBIOLOGY KLESIELLA INFECTIONS - CLASSIFICATION KLESIELLA INFECTIONS - GENETICS RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE SEROTYPING SPACE TIME CLUSTERING |
| Type: | Journal Article Article |
| Appears in Collections: | Research Output |
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