Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5566645 | American Journal of Infection Control | 2016 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Acinetobacter baumannii is regarded as one of the most important pathogens in hospital outbreaks. To obtain an efficient and simple epidemiologic method of surveillance during outbreaks, we assessed the applicability of the polymerase chain reaction-based open reading frames typing (POT) method and compared it with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. The POT method was found to have sufficient discriminatory power to identify the strains and would be widely applicable to epidemiologic surveillance during hospital outbreaks.
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Authors
Yuji MD, Atsushi Yuki, Takaaki Hamamoto, Sadahiro PhD, Akihiko MD, PhD, Kiyofumi PhD, Tetsuya MD, PhD,