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Endemic and epidemic acinetobacter species in a university hospital: an 8-year survey.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Nov 2009
van den Broek P J, van der Reijden T J K, van Strijen E, Helmig-Schurter A V, Bernards A T, Dijkshoorn L
Abstract excerpt
The prevalence of the currently known Acinetobacter species and related trends of antimicrobial resistance in a Dutch university hospital were studied. Between 1999 and 2006, Acinetobacter isolates from clinical samples were collected prospectively. Isolates were analyzed by amplified fragment length polymorphism fingerprinting. For species identification, a profile similarity cutoff level of 50% was used, and...
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