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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-1-22
pubmed:abstractText
A cluster of infections caused by Enterobacter cloacae was observed among preterm neonates in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of a pediatric hospital in Osnabrück, Germany. The presence of similar antimicrobial susceptibility patterns among the bacterial isolates prompted an investigation to determine whether a limited spread of a single strain existed. All 12 E. cloacae isolates from the NICU and 50 nonrelated strains were fingerprinted by small-fragment restriction endonuclease analysis (SF-REA) of EcoRI DNA digests. Selected isolates were further characterized by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of NotI- or XbaI-generated genomic restriction fragments. Epidemiologically unrelated strains were clearly discriminated by both methods. Results achieved by SF-REA and PFGE revealed that of the 12 isolates from the NICU, 11 belonged to the same genotypic cluster. Since all reagents and equipment for both techniques are commercially available, DNA fingerprinting by SF-REA or PFGE is proposed as a useful tool in the microbiology laboratory for investigating the epidemiological relatedness of E. cloacae strains of clinical and environmental origin.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0095-1137
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
128-33
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8093251-Cross Infection, pubmed-meshheading:8093251-DNA Fingerprinting, pubmed-meshheading:8093251-DNA Restriction Enzymes, pubmed-meshheading:8093251-Disease Outbreaks, pubmed-meshheading:8093251-Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field, pubmed-meshheading:8093251-Enterobacter cloacae, pubmed-meshheading:8093251-Enterobacteriaceae Infections, pubmed-meshheading:8093251-Genotype, pubmed-meshheading:8093251-Germany, pubmed-meshheading:8093251-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:8093251-Infant, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:8093251-Infant, Premature, pubmed-meshheading:8093251-Infant, Premature, Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:8093251-Intensive Care Units, Neonatal, pubmed-meshheading:8093251-Microbial Sensitivity Tests, pubmed-meshheading:8093251-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:8093251-Plasmids, pubmed-meshheading:8093251-Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Epidemiological fingerprinting of Enterobacter cloacae by small-fragment restriction endonuclease analysis and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of genomic restriction fragments.
pubmed:affiliation
Staatliches Medizinal-Untersuchungsamt Osnabrück, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article