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Genome organization of epidemic Acinetobacter baumannii strains.
BMC microbiology - 10 Oct 2011
Di Nocera Pier Paolo, Rocco Francesco, Giannouli Maria, Triassi Maria, Zarrilli Raffaele
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Acinetobacter baumannii is an opportunistic pathogen responsible for hospital-acquired infections. A. baumannii epidemics described world-wide were caused by few genotypic clusters of strains. The occurrence of epidemics caused by multi-drug resistant strains assigned to novel genotypes have been reported over the last few years. RESULTS: In the present study, we compared whole genome sequences of...
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