Genotypic analysis of a cluster of systemic Candida albicansinfections in a neonatal intensive care unit

Autor: FAIX, ROGER G., FINKEL, DAVID J., ANDERSEN, RICHARD D., HOSTETTER, MARGARET K.
Zdroj: The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal; December 1995, Vol. 14 Issue: 12 p1063-1067, 5p
Abstrakt: Five very low birth weight infants developed systemic Candida albicansinfection during a 6-week period in an urban neonatal intensive care unit. In an effort to assess whether a common source outbreak was present, the genomic DNA of the clinical isolates was compared by EcoRI and XbaI restriction fragment analysis and Southern blot hybridization with 27A, a spe-
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