Journal: Cureus
Article Title: Evidence-Based Interventions to Reduce the Incidence of Common Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria in an Adult Intensive Care Unit
doi: 10.7759/cureus.39979
Figure Lengend Snippet: E. Coli: Escherichia coli; ICU: intensive care unit; CCU: cardiac care unit; Med: medical; Surg: surgery; Onco: oncology; Gen: general; Hema: hematology; Ped's: pediatrics; Ortho: orthopedics; ERIC-PCR: enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus-polymerase chain reaction; UPGMA: unweighted pair-group method
Article Snippet: Dendrograms were constructed based on the averaged similarity of the matrix using the Jacquard coefficient and the Unweighted Pair-Group Method (UPGMA) algorithm with optimization and band tolerance set a 1% (version 7.6, Applied Maths, TX, USA).
Techniques: Polymerase Chain Reaction