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7854891

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-3-15
pubmed:abstractText
During a 15-day period, 7 premature infants hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unit presented with sepsis caused by Candida albicans. The local environment and hands of all 54 persons involved in the intensive care unit were examined for the presence of this organism. Five techniques were used in the analysis of the isolates recovered from blood cultures of the children, the hands of personnel and 10 control isolates. The methods used were serotype determination, genetic fingerprinting, morphotyping, resistotyping and killer yeast typing. Morphotyping and genetic fingerprinting proved to be the most discriminatory techniques, and only combined analysis of the results obtained with these various methods allowed the source of the outbreak to be identified. An isolate from the hands of a healthy staff member and isolates from infected children all belonged to the same strain.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0891-3668
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
13
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
899-905
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Use of DNA fingerprinting and biotyping methods to study a Candida albicans outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit.
pubmed:affiliation
Pontchaillou Teaching Hospital, Rennes, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study