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Molecular Epidemiology of Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Egypt: Clonal Spread of blaOXA-23.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) - 1 Apr 2018
El Bannah Afaf Mohamed Samy, Nawar Nada Nabil, Hassan Reem Mostafa Mohamed, Salem Sherifa Tarek Bassiouni
Abstract excerpt
Of great concern is the increased frequency of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) causing healthcare-associated infections. Different classes of β-lactamases are involved in this resistance through hydrolyzing carbapenems. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) has been applied successfully for characterizing different varieties of bacterial pathogens epidemiologically. In the present study, we aimed...
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