van Nierop W H, Duse A G, Stewart R G, Bilgeri Y R, Koornhof H J
Division of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg, South Africa.
J Clin Microbiol. 1998 Oct;36(10):3085-7. doi: 10.1128/JCM.36.10.3085-3087.1998.
An outbreak of Enterobacter cloacae in the neonatal intensive care unit of a provincial hospital in Gauteng, South Africa, resulting in nine deaths was investigated. Macrorestriction analysis using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis revealed that three isolates of E. cloacae from blood cultures of patients, six from environmental sources, and one from the hands of a staff member belonged to the same genotypic cluster.
对南非豪登省一家省级医院新生儿重症监护病房爆发的阴沟肠杆菌疫情展开了调查,此次疫情导致9人死亡。采用脉冲场凝胶电泳进行的宏观限制性分析显示,从患者血培养物中分离出的3株阴沟肠杆菌、从环境来源分离出的6株以及从一名工作人员手上分离出的1株均属于同一基因型簇。