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Evidence of Interruption of the comM Gene in a Large Series of Clinical Isolates of Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii.
Journal of molecular microbiology and biotechnology - 1 Jan 2016
Douraghi Masoumeh, Jasemi Seyedesomaye, Kodori Mansoor, Rahbar Mohammad, Boroumand Mohammad Ali
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies have recognized the ATPase-encoding comM gene as a hot spot for the integration of Acinetobacter baumannii resistance islands (RIs). Despite the circulation of high numbers of multidrug-resistant A. baumannii (MDR-AB) isolates in Middle East countries, no information is available about the interruption of comM and subsequent transposition into comM in isolates belonging to the global clones (GC)...
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