PULSED-FIELD GEL-ELECTROPHORESIS AND TYPING OF NOSOCOMIAL SERRATIA-MARCESCENS ISOLATES

Authors
LEHMACHER A OLSZEWSKI M WOLTER M KOHLER B PERTSCHY A METHKE C FALKENHAGEN U
Citation
A. Lehmacher et al., PULSED-FIELD GEL-ELECTROPHORESIS AND TYPING OF NOSOCOMIAL SERRATIA-MARCESCENS ISOLATES, Medical microbiology letters, 5(5), 1996, pp. 245-252
Citations number
16
Journal title
Medical microbiology letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
10184627
Volume
5
Issue
5
Year of publication
1996
Pages
245 - 252
Database
ISI
SICI code
1018-4627(1996)5:5<245:PGATON>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
A rapid and economical procedure for macrorestriction analysis of Serr atia marcescens DNA from nosocomially infected intensive care patients was evaluated and compared to biotyping, antimicrobial susceptibility typing, plasmid analysis and ribotyping of the isolates. Macrorestric tion analysis of S. marcescens turned out to be practical, reliable an d superior to the other methods as regards discrimination.