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Cross-transmission of Acinetobacter junii carrying blaOXA-58 in a neonatal ICU.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Aug 2024
Boudjella-Senhadji I, Bour M, Potron A, Lorme F, Belal-Khedim L, Razafimahefa H, Lecointe D
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BACKGROUND: Nasal colonization of two preterm infants in our neonatal ICU by Acinetobacter junii carrying the blaOXA-58 carbapenem resistance gene was demonstrated. OBJECTIVES: To study whether the two isolates were identical and to investigate the hypotheses of cross-transmission. METHODS: Antibiotic susceptibility tests of the two isolates were performed by standard diffusion and the MICs of carbapenems...
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