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Clonal spread of carbapenem non-susceptible Acinetobacter baumannii in an intensive care unit in a teaching hospital in China.
Annals of laboratory medicine - 1 Nov 2012
Zhong Qiao, Xu Weidong, Wu Yuanjian, Xu Hongxing
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BACKGROUND: This study was aimed to investigate the genetic diversity and antibiotic resistance profile of the nosocomial infection agent Acinetobacter baumannii from a medical intensive care unit (ICU) in a teaching hospital in Suzhou, China. METHODS: The genetic relationship among A. baumannii isolates in an ICU was investigated using multilocus sequence typing (MLST). The antibiotic resistance pattern was...
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