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In vivo emergence of colistin resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates of sequence type 357 during colistin treatment.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease - 1 Jul 2014
Kim Yoonjung, Bae Il Kwon, Lee Hyukmin, Jeong Seok Hoon, Yong Dongeun, Lee Kyungwon
Abstract excerpt
This study was performed to investigate the mechanisms of in vivo acquisition of colistin resistance in A. baumannii during colistin treatment. Three colistin-susceptible/resistant pairs of A. baumannii were recovered from patients who underwent colistin treatment. All of the 6 isolates included in this study shared an identical sequence type (ST), ST375, and they showed identical SmaI-macrorestriction patterns...
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