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Dissemination of Acinetobacter nosocomialis clone among critically ill patients and the environment.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Aug 2013
de Carvalho Girão Valéria Brígido, Martins Natacha, Cacci Luciana Camila, Coelho-Souza Talita, Nouér Simone Aranha, Riley Lee W, Moreira Beatriz Meurer
Abstract excerpt
We examined the environmental dissemination of Acinetobacter nosocomialis multilocus sequence typing clonal complex 260/71 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, including water from a dam and food samples. The increasing use of sequence based methods has demonstrated a large, previously unpredicted, dissemination of bacteria that may serve as opportunistic pathogens.
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