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Multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain that caused an outbreak in a neurosurgery ward and its aac(6')-Iae gene cassette encoding a novel aminoglycoside acetyltransferase.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Sept 2005
Sekiguchi Jun-ichiro, Asagi Tsukasa, Miyoshi-Akiyama Tohru, Fujino Tomoko, Kobayashi Intetsu, Morita Koji, Kikuchi Yoshihiro, Kuratsuji Tadatoshi, Kirikae Teruo
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We characterized multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from patients involved in an outbreak of catheter-associated urinary tract infections that occurred in a neurosurgery ward of a hospital in Sendai, Japan. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of SpeI-, XbaI-, or HpaI-digested genomic DNAs from the isolates revealed that clonal expansion of a P. aeruginosa strain designated IMCJ2.S1 had...
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