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There seems to be agreement from most centres that in recent years there has been an increase in the incidence of infections due to gram-negative bacilli. It would be easy to document this with references to special situations such as the prevalence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in burns units, or to the frequency of isolation of intestinal gram-negative bacilli from blood cultures in patients after surgery. But this would be a statement of recorded findings and say little about the source of the organisms themselves. If we want to know where they come from, we are probably going to be restricted to those organisms for which typing methods are available. In this paper I would like to discuss the situation in regard to Ps. aeruginosa and Escherichia coli. As typing has not yet been used extensively for epidemiological purposes, discussion will have to be confined to the present position rather than to a comparison between the position now and in the past.
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Shooter, R.A. (1971). Changes of the Infectious Pool in the Hospital with Regard to Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli . In: Finland, M., Marget, W., Bartmann, K. (eds) Bacterial Infections. Bayer-Symposium, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65267-7_13
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