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Population dynamics of an Acinetobacter baumannii clonal complex during colonization of patients.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 2014
Wen Hanchun, Wang Ke, Liu Yang, Tay Martin, Lauro Federico M, Huang Hong, Wu Huayu, Liang Hongjie, Ding Yichen, Givskov Michael, Chen Yiqiang, Yang Liang
Abstract excerpt
Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as one of the leading pathogens causing hospital-acquired infection. The success of A. baumannii as a pathogen has to a large extent been attributed to its capacity to remodel its genome. Several major epidemic clonal complexes of A. baumannii spread across different health care facilities around the world, each of which contains a subset of diversified strains. However, little...
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