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[Genetic variety of Acinetobacter baumannii in an intensive care unit for burn patients].
Zhurnal mikrobiologii, epidemiologii i immunobiologii - 1 Jan 2000
Solomennyĭ A P, Iafaev R Kh, Goncharov A E, Aslanov B I, Krylov K M, Maksimov A Iu, Demakov V A
Abstract excerpt
The genetic structure of A. baumannii hospital isolates, formed in the course of 2002 - 2004 in an intensive care unit for burn patients (St. Petersburg) was studied. The prolonged circulation of only some clonal strains was shown, 35% of the isolates belonged to dominating strains. Phenotypically, all cultures were characterized by resistance to the preparations of the cephalosporin row and gentamicin. The...
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