Cross-infection by non-encapsulated Haemophilus influenzae
1990
Abstract From October, 1988, to January, 1989, 18 patients admitted to an acute medical chest ward were infected with an ampicillin-resistant β-lactamase-producing strain of Haemophilus influenzae . All 18 isolates were non-encapsulated strains of biotype III and showed identical cell envelope protein profiles, as judged by sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The organism was not isolated from repeated environmental samples but there was strong circumstantial evidence that a spirometer was a common iatrogenic source of the cross-infection.
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