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Evaluation of restriction endonuclease analysis as an epidemiologic typing system for Branhamella catarrhalis
J E Patterson1, T F Patterson, P Farrel
1Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|May 1, 1989
Abstract:
Restriction endonuclease analysis (REA) was evaluated as an epidemiologic typing tool to distinguish Branhamella catarrhalis strains. Fourteen beta-lactamase-producing strains were collected over a 16-month period at a hospital where a nosocomial outbreak of this organism was previously documented by REA. REA produced 12 distinct patterns which correlated with epidemiologic data. Chromosomal REA appears to be a useful technique for distinguishing B. catarrhalis strains.