How to select and interpret molecular strain typing methods for epidemiological studies of bacterial infections a review for healthcare epidemiologists

FC Tenover, RD Arbeit, RV Goering - Infection Control & Hospital …, 1997 - cambridge.org
Strain typing is an integral part of epidemiological investigations of nosocomial infections.
Methods for distinguishing among bacterial strains have improved dramatically over the last …

The clinical microbiology laboratory and infection control: emerging pathogens, antimicrobial resistance, and new technology

MA Pfaller, LA Herwaldt - Clinical infectious diseases, 1997 - JSTOR
The work required of the clinical microbiology laboratory and of the infection control program
has become increasingly complex, demanding, and intertwined as the decade of the 1990s …

Computerized expert systems and investigation of outbreaks of hospital‐acquired infections

J Watine - Laboratory Robotics and Automation, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Our computerized epidemiological expert system (SIR, I2A, Montpellier, France) facilitated
both detection and investigation of an outbreak of postsurgical infections with multiresistant …

Susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa of various pyocin types to the newly synthesized ampicillin derivative, N-(6, 7-difluoroquinolonyl) ampicillin.

CH Chen, TL Tsou, HY Chiang, SH Lee… - The Journal of …, 1997 - academic.oup.com
Six hundred and thirty-two isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa of 17 pyocin types were
collected in 1993 in Taiwan. Types 1, 10, 3, 35 and 12 were the most common pyocin types …