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Evidence for the Genetic Unrelatedness of Nosocomial Alcaligenes xylosoxidans Strains in a Pediatric Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Farida Benaoudia  and
Edouard Bingen
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Abstract

Restriction fragment-length polymorphism of ribosomal DNA and random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis were used to study the relationships among nine isolates of Alcaligenes xylosoxidans obtained from seven children in a pediatric hospital. All the children harbored only genotypically unrelated strains, thus excluding a common source of exposure or patient-to-patient strain transfer.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , February 1997 , pp. 132 - 134
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1997

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