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Widespread carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii clones in Italian hospitals revealed by a multicenter study.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Aug 2011
Carretto E, Barbarini D, Dijkshoorn L, van der Reijden T J K, Brisse S, Passet V, Farina C
Abstract excerpt
Population diversity, susceptibility to antibiotics including carbapenems of 277 Acinetobacter baumannii strains collected in 17 Italian hospitals over a 6-months' period was assessed. Semi-automated rep-PCR was used for screening strains for genotypic relatedness. AFLP analysis and MLST were used as definitive methods for strain, species and/or clone identification. Among the 277 strains, 49 rep-PCR types were...
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