Publications by authors named "Nozomi Ichie"

Objective: is a causative agent of healthcare-associated infections, and the introduction and spread of that has acquired drug resistance within a hospital are serious healthcare problems. We investigated the transition of epidemic clones and the occurrence of outbreaks by molecular epidemiological analysis to understand the long-term behavior of within a single facility.

Methods: isolates collected from blood-culture-positive patients between January 2009 and December 2020 were subjected to PCR-based open reading frame typing (POT) for species identification, clonal typing, and homology searches.

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