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Research Article| Volume 5, ISSUE 3, P413-436, September 1985

Plasmid Fingerprinting: A Tool for Bacterial Strain Identification and Surveillance of Nosocomial and Community-Acquired Infections

  • Fred C. Tenover
    Correspondence
    Microbiology Section, Seattle Veterans Administration Medical Center, 1660 S. Columbian Way, Seattle, Washington 98108
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    Associate Chief, Microbiology Section, Seattle Veterans Administration Medical Center, and Assistant Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine, Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Seattle, Washington
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-2712(18)30850-3
Plasmid Fingerprinting: A Tool for Bacterial Strain Identification and Surveillance of Nosocomial and Community-Acquired Infections
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      Plasmids are a diverse set of genetic elements that can be used as a means of identifying bacterial isolates of the same strain. The technique of analyzing plasmids, plasmid fingerprinting, has been utilized for epidemiologic studies of both nosocomial and community-acquired infections. The technique is rapid and relatively simple and can be performed by most clinical microbiology laboratories.
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