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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 17, 516-521, Copyright © 1970 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

Pseudomonas Aeruginosa in Respiratory Illness: Endogenous or Exogenous?

HARRIET B. H. SMITH M.SC., DIP.BACT.(TOR.)1 and PETER G. TUFFNELL M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.PATH1

1 Department of Microbiology, Toronto General Hospital

Pyocine typing of patient strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa has proved to be a useful epidemiological tool in a large general hospital to indicate that there does not appear to be an overall problem of hospital cross-infection (exogenous nosocomial infection) in those wards where intubation and use of inhalation therapy equipment are common. Instead, the observations of this study substantiate the findings of other workers that Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections (or colonizations) of the respiratory tract are more likely to be endogenous nosocomial in origin.






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