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Population Structure Analysis of Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Isolates from Brazil Reveals Predominance of Clonal Complexes 1, 15, and 79.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Apr 2016
Camargo Carlos Henrique, Tiba Monique Ribeiro, Saes Marta Regina, Vasconcellos Francielli Mahnic de, Santos Luis Fernando Dos, Romero Eliete Caló, Garcia Doroti de Oliveira
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The population structure of 71 carbapenem-resistantAcinetobacter baumanniiclinical isolates from several hospitals in Brazil was investigated by ApaI pulsed-field gel electrophoresis,blaOXA-51-like subtyping, and multilocus sequence typing (Institute Pasteur scheme). In addition to the predominance of strains carryingblaOXA-23, we detected the presence ofblaOXA-72andblaOXA-231 We observed a predominance of clonal...
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