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Genetic relationship between blood and nonblood isolates from bacteremic patients determined by pulsed-field gel
J Matsuda1, Y Hirakata, F Iori
1Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|September 17, 1998
Abstract:
A total of 148 isolates from 55 bacteremic patients were examined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Genetically different nonblood strains were isolated from 13.9% of patients with bacteremia caused by gram-positive cocci and 42.1% with Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia, indicating that antibiograms of a single nonblood P. aeruginosa isolate are not always informative for treatment of bacteremia.