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Epidemiological surveillance of Serratia marcescens infections by bacteriocin typing.

Applied microbiology ·Vol. 22 ·No. 6 ·1971-12-00 ·Pages 1058-63

Traub WH, Raymond EA

Abstract

During 10 months, 155 isolates of Serratia marcescens were cultured from 105 patients, of whom 49 were considered to have significant infection. The 155 isolates were typed by bacteriocin sensitivity, and 137 (88.4%) were assigned to 37 provisional bacteriocin groups; 18 isolates were nontypable. No major outbreaks of nosocomial infection were demonstrable; however, there were four chronologically separate minor episodes of cross-infection that involved two or three patients per room or unit, respectively.

MeSH Terms
Adolescent Adult Aged Bacteriocins/pharmacology Child Child, Preschool Cross Infection/epidemiology,microbiology Disease Outbreaks/epidemiology,microbiology Drug Resistance, Microbial Enterobacteriaceae Infections/epidemiology,microbiology Female Humans Infant Male Methods Middle Aged North Carolina Serotyping Serratia marcescens/classification,drug effects,isolation & purification
Chemicals
Bacteriocins
Authors & Affiliations
2 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Traub W H
Raymond E A
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Article Info
Journal
Applied microbiology
Abbr.
Appl Microbiol
ISSN
0003-6919
DOI
10.1128/am.22.6.1058-1063.1971
Published
1971-12-00
Pages
1058-63
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
7605802
PMCID
PMC376485
Subset
IM
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.1128/am.22.6.1058-1063.1971 PMC Full Text
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