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Use of ribotyping in epidemiological surveillance of nosocomial outbreaks.
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- Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy: unlocking fundamentals and prospects for bacterial strain typing.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2019Review
- Outbreaks in Health Care Settings.Infectious disease clinics of North America · 2016Review
- Evaluation of the strain identity between isolates from caries lesions and root canals in early childhood caries cases.Folia microbiologica · 2013Article
- Biobanking.Molecular biotechnology · 2008Review
- Ribotyping and biotyping of Staphylococcus epidermidis isolated from hospital environment.Folia microbiologica · 2007Article
- Multiple insertional events, restricted by the genetic background, have led to acquisition of pathogenicity island IIJ96-like domains among Escherichia coli strains of different clinical origins.Infection and immunity · 2005Article
- Species-level identification of staphylococcal isolates by real-time PCR and melt curve analysis.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2005Article
- Ribotyping of Lactobacillus casei group strains isolated from dairy products.Folia microbiologica · 2005Article
- Species distribution and ribotype diversity of Burkholderia cepacia complex isolates from French patients with cystic fibrosis.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2004Article
- Molecular surveillance of European quinolone-resistant clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter spp. using automated ribotyping.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2000Article
- Rapid and simple determination of the Escherichia coli phylogenetic group.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2000Article
- Characterization of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Salmonella typhimurium by phenotypic and genotypic typing methods.Journal of clinical microbiology · 1999Article
- Comparative in vitro activities of meropenem, imipenem, temocillin, piperacillin, and ceftazidime in combination with tobramycin, rifampin, or ciprofloxacin against Burkholderia cepacia isolates from patients with cystic fibrosis.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 1999Article
- Klebsiella spp. as nosocomial pathogens: epidemiology, taxonomy, typing methods, and pathogenicity factors.Clinical microbiology reviews · 1998Review
- Comparative analysis of infrequent-restriction-site PCR and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for epidemiological typing of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 strains.Journal of clinical microbiology · 1998Article
- Molecular study of persistence of Nocardia asteroides and Nocardia otitidiscaviarum strains in patients with long-term nocardiosis.Journal of clinical microbiology · 1997Article
- Intraspecific characterization of Vibrio tapetis strains by use of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, ribotyping, and plasmid profiling.Applied and environmental microbiology · 1997Article
- Molecular epidemiology provides evidence of genotypic heterogeneity of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa serotype O:12 outbreak isolates from a pediatric hospital.Journal of clinical microbiology · 1996Article
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Abstract
Over the past few years, genotypic methods based on the study of bacterial DNA polymorphism have shown high discriminatory power for strain differentiation and superiority over most phenotypic methods commonly available in the clinical microbiology laboratory. Some of the methods used, however, required either a high level of technology and sophisticated equipment (e.g., pulsed-field gel electrophoresis) or species-specific reagents of restricted availability (randomly cloned DNA probes or gene-specific probes). Because ribotyping uses a universal probe (rRNA) and is a rather simple technology, particularly since the advent of nonradioactive labelling systems, it has been widely used for strain differentiation of most bacterial species involved in nosocomial outbreaks. In vitro and in vivo stability of the markers studied has been demonstrated. Although there may be limitation to this approach, ribotyping was found to be highly discriminative, particularly for typing members of the family Enterobacteriaceae, Pseudomonas cepacia, and Xanthomonas maltophilia. In many cases, it has improved the understanding of the mechanism of nosocomial acquisition of organisms by allowing a distinction between endogenous and exogenous infections. Among exogenous infections, it has distinguished between individual and epidemic strains, thus differentiating cross-infection from independent acquisition.
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