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NDM-2 carbapenemase-producing Acinetobacter baumannii in the United Arab Emirates.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Feb 2012
Ghazawi A, Sonnevend A, Bonnin R A, Poirel L, Nordmann P, Hashmey R, Rizvi T A, B Hamadeh M, Pál T
Abstract excerpt
Screening 155 carbapenem non-susceptible Acinetobacter baumannii strains recovered in Abu Dhabi hospitals identified two metallo-ß-lactamase bla(NDM) gene-carrying isolates. They were isolated 4 months apart from the urine of a cancer patient previously treated in Egypt, Lebanon and in the United Arab Emirates. They were clonally related and carried the bla(NDM-2) gene recently identified in A. baumannii in Egypt...
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