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Screening and deciphering antibiotic resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii: a state of the art.
Expert review of anti-infective therapy - 1 Jun 2013
Bonnin Rémy A, Nordmann Patrice, Poirel Laurent
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Acinetobacter baumannii, recognized as a serious threat in healthcare facilities, has the ability to develop resistance to antibiotics quite easily. This resistance is related to either gene acquisition (horizontal gene transfer) or mutations in the genome, leading to gene disruption, over- or down-expression of genes. The clinically relevant antibiotic resistances in A. baumannii include resistance to...
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