Clinical microbiologists are often asked to determine the relatedness of a group of bacterial
isolates, that is, to type them. During the last decade, traditional methods of strain typing …

The ability to identify strains within species of microorganisms is important to the
development of measures to prevent and control nosocomial infections. The efforts of both …

During routine surveillance of patients in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), an alert
infection-control practitioner confirmed the relationship of the index patient (sibling 3) who …

Mechanisms of resistance to five aminoglycoside antibiotics: gentamicin (G), tobramycin (T),
netilmicin (N), amikacin (A) and isepamicin (I), were assessed in 16 clinical isolates of …

The economic crisis that has been seen worldwide affects developing countries such as
Brazil even more severely. Worsening budget shortfalls for the healthcare system …

Microbial infections were observed in 30%(155/519) of all patients consecutively admitted in
1993 to the adult intensive care unit in the Jordan University Hospital in Amman. Gram …