Outbreak of Moraxella catarrhalis in a respiratory unit.

S J Richards, A P Greening, M C Enright, M G Morgan, H McKenzie

Central Microbiological Laboratories, Western General Hospital, Foresterhill, Aberdeen.

The clinical and epidemiological features of an outbreak of nosocomial Moraxella catarrhalis infection in a respiratory unit are described. Six isolates from five patients were shown to be indistinguishable by immunoblotting and restriction endonuclease analysis and different from 11 other, unrelated clinical strains.

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