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Applications of Molecular Methods to Epidemiologic Investigations of Nosocomial Infections in a Pediatric Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Edouard Bingen
Edouard Bingen*
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Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Hôpital Robert Debré, Paris, France
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Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Hôpital Robert Debré, 48 Bd Serurier, 75935 Paris Cedex 19, France
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Abstract

Molecular typing methods are highly discriminatory for strains that cannot be separated by phenotypic methods. They are especially suited to monitoring outbreaks in children's hospitals. In many cases, molecular typing has improved the understanding of the mechanism of nosocomial acquisition of organisms by allowing 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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From the Third International Conference on the Prevention of Infection
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 15 , Issue 7 , July 1994 , pp. 488 - 493
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1994

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