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J Clin Microbiol
; 40(8): 3032-4, 2002 Aug.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-12149371
RESUMO
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 nucleotide sequencing of the cfiA genes and upstream IS1186/IS1168 elements).