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High incidence of pandrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates collected from patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia in Greece, Italy and Spain as part of the MagicBullet clinical trial.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Dec 2017
Nowak J, Zander E, Stefanik D, Higgins P G, Roca I, Vila J, McConnell M J, Cisneros J M, Seifert H
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OBJECTIVES: To investigate the molecular epidemiology, antimicrobial susceptibility and carbapenem resistance determinants of Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from respiratory tract samples of patients diagnosed with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) who were enrolled in the MagicBullet clinical trial. METHODS: A. baumannii isolates were prospectively cultured from respiratory tract samples from 65 patients...
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