Emergence of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii ST787 in clinical isolates from blood in a tertiary teaching hospital in Northern Taiwan

Emergence of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii ST787 in clinical isolates from blood in a tertiary teaching hospital in Northern Taiwan

Background/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the predominant clones of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) in our hospital in Taiwan by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) technique. Methods: We collected 108 non-duplicate...

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Main Authors: Yi-Fan Hu, Charles Jia-Yin Hou, Chien-Feng Kuo, Nai-Yu Wang, Alice Ying-Jung Wu, Ching-Hsiang Leung, Chang-Pan Liu, Hung-I. Yeh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-10-01
Series:Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection
Subjects:
Acinetobacter baumannii
Carbapenemase gene
PFGE
Pulsotype
MLST
Sequence type
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1684118217300683

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