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Antibiotic resistance determinants in nosocomial strains of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Jan 2009
Mak Jennifer K, Kim Mi-Jurng, Pham Jeanette, Tapsall John, White Peter A
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OBJECTIVES: To investigate the presence of resistance genes in nosocomial multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from outbreak and sporadic settings. METHODS: Thirty-two A. baumannii isolates were collected, 13 of which were involved in two outbreaks from different hospitals, which resulted in four deaths. The remaining 19 isolates were collected sporadically over 5 years from two other...
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