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Clonal diversity of nosocomial epidemic Acinetobacter baumannii strains isolated in Spain.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Mar 2011
Villalón Pilar, Valdezate Sylvia, Medina-Pascual Maria J, Rubio Virginia, Vindel Ana, Saez-Nieto Juan A
Abstract excerpt
Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the major pathogens involved in nosocomial outbreaks. The clonal diversity of 729 epidemic strains isolated from 19 Spanish hospitals (mainly from intensive care units) was analyzed over an 11-year period. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) identified 58 PFGE types that were subjected to susceptibility testing, rpoB gene sequencing, and multilocus sequence typing (MLST). All...
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