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Conversion of OXA-66 into OXA-82 in clinical Acinetobacter baumannii isolates and association with altered carbapenem susceptibility.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Feb 2013
Zander Esther, Chmielarczyk Agnieszka, Heczko Piotr, Seifert Harald, Higgins Paul G
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OBJECTIVES: Three clinical Acinetobacter baumannii isolates (A-C) were isolated from three separate patients during an outbreak in a hospital in Krakow, Poland. Isolate A was recovered first and was susceptible to carbapenems, whereas isolates B and C were resistant. The aim of this study was to investigate the differences in carbapenem susceptibility in these outbreak-related isolates. METHODS: Clonal...
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