Use of different PCR-based DNA fingerprinting techniques and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis to investigate the epidemiology of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-Acinetobacter baumannii complex

Interpreting chromosomal DNA restriction patterns produced by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: criteria for bacterial strain typing

1995 • 8,278 citations

Numerical index of the discriminatory ability of typing systems: an application of Simpson's index of diversity

1988 • 3,070 citations

Taxonomy of the Genus Acinetobacter with the Recognition of Acinetobacter baumannii sp. nov., Acinetobacter haemolyticus sp. nov., Acinetobacter johnsonii sp. nov., and Acinetobacter junii sp. nov. and Emended Descriptions of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus and Acinetobacter lwoffii

1986 • 633 citations

Ribotyping of the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-Acinetobacter baumannii complex

1992 • 204 citations

Characterization of a hospital outbreak of imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii by phenotypic and genotypic typing methods

1994 • 203 citations

Association of contaminated gloves with transmission of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus var. anitratus in an intensive care unit

1991 • 188 citations

EPIDEMIC BACTEREMIA DUE TO ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII IN FIVE INTENSIVE CARE UNITS

1990 • 187 citations

An outbreak of Acinetobacter respiratory tract infection resulting from incomplete disinfection of ventilatory equipment

1990 • 174 citations

An Outbreak of Infections with Acinetobacter calcoaceticus in Burn Patients: Contamination of Patients' Mattresses

1985 • 174 citations

Nosocomial colonization and infection with multiresistant Acinetobacter baumannii: outbreak delineation using DNA macrorestriction analysis and PCR-fingerprinting

1993 • 152 citations

A comparative study of different PCR-based DNA fingerprinting techniques for typing of the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-A. baumannii complex

1996 • 144 citations

Comparison of ribotyping and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for molecular typing of Acinetobacter isolates

1995 • 125 citations

Use of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for investigation of hospital outbreaks of Acinetobacter baumannii

1992 • 119 citations

Validation of use of whole-cell repetitive extragenic palindromic sequence-based PCR (REP-PCR) for typing strains belonging to the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-Acinetobacter baumannii complex and application of the method to the investigation of a hospital outbreak

1996 • 114 citations

Analysis of clonal relationships among isolates of Shigella sonnei by different molecular typing methods

1995 • 110 citations

Epidemiological study of an Acinetobacter baumannii outbreak by using polymerase chain reaction fingerprinting

1993 • 100 citations

Comparison of four different methods for epidemiologic typing of Acinetobacter baumannii

1994 • 94 citations

The increasing significance of outbreaks of Acinetobacter spp.: the need for control and new agents

1995 • 92 citations

Species, biotype, and bacteriophage type determinations compared with cell envelope protein profiles for typing Acinetobacter strains

1990 • 82 citations

Discrimination of epidemic and sporadic isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii by repetitive element PCR-mediated DNA fingerprinting

1994 • 69 citations

Control of an epidemic spread of a multi-resistant strain ofAcinetobacter calcoaceticus in a hospital

1989 • 62 citations

Clinical and epidemiological features of an outbreak of acinetobacter infection in an intensive therapy unit

1995 • 62 citations

Acinetobacter calcoaceticus biovar anitratus septicaemia in a neonatal intensive care unit: epidemiology and control

1989 • 60 citations

Plasmid DNA Profiles of Acinetobacter Baumannii: Clinical Application in a Complex Endemic Setting

1994 • 58 citations

The epidemiology of acinetobacter infections in Hong Kong

1996 • 49 citations

Molecular Heterogeneity of acinetobacter baumanii isolates during Seasonal Increase in Prevalence

1995 • 45 citations

Correlation of six methods for typing nosocomial isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii

1995 • 44 citations

Comparison of different PCR approaches for characterization of Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) cepacia isolates

1995 • 39 citations

A comparative study of ribotyping and arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction for investigation of hospital outbreaks of Acinetobacter baumannii infection

1994 • 31 citations

Polymerase chain reaction-based strain characterization of noncapsulate Haemophilus influenzae

1993 • 29 citations

Plasmid DNA Profiles of Acinetobacter Baumannii: Clinical Application in a Complex Endemic Setting

1994 • 18 citations

Molecular Heterogeneity of acinetobacter baumanii isolates during Seasonal Increase in Prevalence

1995 • 11 citations

Epidemiological typing of Flavimonas oryzihabitans by PCR and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

1996 • 11 citations

Genomic fingerprinting Acinetobacter baumannii: amplification of multiple inter-repetitive extragenic palindromic sequences

1995 • 7 citations

Molecular typing of Haemophilus influenzae using a DNA probe and multiplex PCR

1994 • 5 citations