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A cluster of serious Escherichia coli infections in a neonatal intensive-care unit
D J Diekema1, J Barr, L D Boyken
1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242-1081, USA.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
|December 16, 1997
Abstract:
A cluster of serious Escherichia coli infections was identified among patients in a neonatal intensive-care unit. Infection control staff identified the outbreak because they realized that E coli rarely caused infections in this unit. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis confirmed that one strain of E coli was transmitted among patients.