Richards S J, Greening A P, Enright M C, Morgan M G, McKenzie H
Central Microbiological Laboratories, Western General Hospital, Foresterhill, Aberdeen.
Thorax. 1993 Jan;48(1):91-2. doi: 10.1136/thx.48.1.91.
The clinical and epidemiological features of an outbreak of nosocomial Moraxella catarrhalis infection in a respiratory unit are described. Six isolates from five patients were shown to be indistinguishable by immunoblotting and restriction endonuclease analysis and different from 11 other, unrelated clinical strains.