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Carbapenem-resistant and OXA-23-producing Acinetobacter baumannii isolates in the United Arab Emirates.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Sept 2008
Mugnier P, Poirel L, Pitout M, Nordmann P
Abstract excerpt
Five carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates, collected from the United Arab Emirates in 2006, were investigated to identify the mechanism(s) responsible for carbapenem resistance. Genotyping was performed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, and the location of the bla(OXA-23) gene was determined by using the endonuclease I CeuI technique and mating-out assays. The four isolates in which the...
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