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Endemic and epidemic Acinetobacter baumannii clones: a twelve-year study in a tertiary care hospital.
BMC microbiology - 25 Feb 2015
Villalón Pilar, Valdezate Sylvia, Cabezas Teresa, Ortega Montserrat, Garrido Noelia, Vindel Ana, Medina-Pascual María J, Saez-Nieto Juan A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Nosocomial outbreaks of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii are of worldwide concern. Using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), multilocus sequence typing (MLST), and multiple locus variable number tandem repeat sequence (VNTR) analysis (MLVA), the present work examines the genetic diversity of the endemic and epidemic A. baumannii clones isolated in a single hospital over a twelve-year...
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