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A Cluster of Serious Escherichia coli Infections in a Neonatal Intensive-Care Unit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Daniel J. Diekema ,
Joan Barr ,
Linda D. Boyken ,
Barry J. Buschelman ,
Ronald N. Jones ,
Michael A. Pfaller  and
Loreen A. Herwaldt
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Abstract

A cluster of serious Escherichia coli infections was identified among patients in a neonatal intensive-care unit. Infection control staff identified the outbreak because they realized that E coli rarely caused infections in this unit. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis confirmed that one strain of E coli was transmitted among patients.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 18 , Issue 11 , November 1997 , pp. 774 - 776
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1997

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