Epidemiological analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from a selected patient population in Brno, Czech Republic.

In the 1996/97 period, 1,413 Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) strains were isolated from 843 patients of the Brno teaching hospitals of St. Anne and Bohunice together with small groups from other hospitals. In the same period, 203 PA strains, used as controls, were isolated from 187 patients treated outside hospitals.

First strains of the genus Kluyvera in Czechoslovakia.

Fourteen of 21 strains isolated from stools, urine specimens and the hospital environment were identified as Kluyvera. All of these 14 strains corresponded with the literary description of the genus Kluyvera and were identical with two reference strains except that one of them failed to utilize sodium acetate within 7 days. One strain (No.