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Predominance of international clone 2 OXA-23-producing-Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates in Greece, 2015: results of a nationwide study.
International journal of antimicrobial agents - 1 Jun 2017
Pournaras Spyros, Dafopoulou Konstantina, Del Franco Mariateresa, Zarkotou Olympia, Dimitroulia Evangelia, Protonotariou Efi, Poulou Aggeliki, Zarrilli Raffaele, Tsakris Athanasios
Abstract excerpt
In a previous nationwide study in Greece, OXA-58 was the sole carbapenemase present among carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) isolated between 2000 and 2009. In this study, the antibiotic resistances, carbapenemase gene content and clonal relatedness of 194 single-patient CRAB clinical isolates collected randomly during 2015 from 11 tertiary hospitals located throughout Greece were investigated....
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