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Emergence of carbapenem resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii in the Czech Republic is associated with the spread of multidrug-resistant strains of European clone II.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Sept 2008
Nemec Alexandr, Krízová Lenka, Maixnerová Martina, Diancourt Laure, van der Reijden Tanny J K, Brisse Sylvain, van den Broek Peterhans, Dijkshoorn Lenie
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OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to analyse the emergence of carbapenem resistance among hospital strains of Acinetobacter in the Czech Republic. METHODS: Acinetobacter isolates were collected prospectively in 2005-06 from 19 diagnostic laboratories. They were identified to species level by AFLP, typed using AFLP, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multilocus sequence typing, and tested for...
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