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Colonization of a medical center in Southern Taiwan by epidemic strains of carbapenem- and multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and the genetic organization of their integrons.
Japanese journal of infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2009
Chen Yao-Shen, Lin Hsi-Hsun, Wu Chia-Hsuang, Hsiao Yu-Shan, Hsu Ning-Shan, Chen Ya-Lei
Abstract excerpt
A total of 46 carbapenem- and multidrug-resistant (CR- and MDR-)Acinetobacter baumannii bacteremic isolates from a Taiwanese medical center were investigated over the period 2000 to 2006 using randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) profiling and by analysing the genetic organization of their integrons. The results of RAPD patterns revealed that before 2003 each CR- and MDR-A. baumannii bacteremic isolate was...
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