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Independent emergence of colistin-resistant Acinetobacter spp. isolates from Korea.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease - 1 May 2009
Park Young Kyoung, Jung Sook-In, Park Kyong-Hwa, Cheong Hae Suk, Peck Kyong Ran, Song Jae-Hoon, Ko Kwan Soo
Abstract excerpt
High colistin resistance rates in Acinetobacter spp. were recently reported in Korean hospitals (J. Antimicrob. Chemother 2007;60:1163). In this study, we investigated if colistin-resistant Acinetobacter spp. isolates from Korean hospitals disseminated clonally or emerged independently. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) analysis was performed for 58 colistin-resistant Acinetobacter spp. isolates: 8 isolates of...
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