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Acinetobacter baumannii infections in Amazon Region driven by extensively drug resistant international clones, 2016-2018.
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - 1 Jan 2019
Caldart Raquel Vosges, Fonseca Erica L, Freitas Fernanda, Rocha Luiza, Vicente Ana Carolina
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BACKGROUND: Acinetobacter baumannii is a leading cause of nosocomial infections. This species is characterised by the presence of pandemic lineages (International Clones) that present a broad antimicrobial resistance profile. OBJECTIVE: To perform the molecular epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii from a clinical setting in the Amazon Basin, and to characterise their antimicrobial resistance...
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