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. 1991 Mar;29(3):648–649. doi: 10.1128/jcm.29.3.648-649.1991

DNA fingerprinting by pulsed field gel electrophoresis and ribotyping to distinguish Pseudomonas cepacia isolates from a nosocomial outbreak.

D J Anderson 1, J S Kuhns 1, M L Vasil 1, D N Gerding 1, E N Janoff 1
PMCID: PMC269838  PMID: 2037688

Abstract

We typed 40 isolates of Pseudomonas cepacia obtained from patients involved in a single outbreak using pulsed field gel electrophoresis and ribotyping. All isolates from the majority of the patients, 16 of 18 (89%), were included in a single group. These typing methods should aid in the clarification of the epidemiology of infection with P. cepacia.

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