Author/Editor		Gubina, M; Komel, R; Dragaš, AZ; Derganc, M; Primožič, J; Kremžar, B
Title		Significance of Serratia marcescens typing for hospital infection detection
Type		članek
Source		Alpe Adria Microbiol J
Vol. and No.		Letnik 2, št. 2
Publication year		1993
Volume		str. 105-13
Language		eng
Abstract		Three methods were evaluated for Serratia marcescens typing. Over a period of 9 years (1982-91), 36 strains were isolated from clinical material obtained fiom 11 departments of the University Medical Centre in Ljubljana. The Grimont-Grimont biotyping method divided the strains tested into 11 biotype groups. The second method, plasmids fingerprinting, revealed 10 small plasmid forms (0.5 - 3.8 kb) in 6 non-pigmented strains isolated from blood cultures. The third method used, antibiotic susceptibility pattern recognition, noticed just 4 bacterial groups. The retrospective data survey of our isolates from blood cultures and from CSF cultures as compared with 36 typed strains, revealed an epidemic in the year 1982 at the Paediatric Division, Centre for Intensive Care, as the first epidemic with S. marcescens in Slovenia. For epidemiological purposes, biotyping is a useful method of investigation recommended for diagnostic clinical typing.
Descriptors		CROSS INFECTION SERRATIA MARCESCENS BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS PLASMIDS DNA FINGERPRINTING CHLORAMPHENICOL CEFOTAXIME CIPROFLOXACIN GENTAMICINS SERRATIA INFECTIONS DISEASE OUTBREAKS