Identification of an Outbreak Cluster of Extensively Antibiotic-Resistant GC1 Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates in U.S. Military Treatment Facilities

Identification of an Outbreak Cluster of Extensively Antibiotic-Resistant GC1 Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates in U.S. Military Treatment Facilities

ABSTRACT An outbreak involving an extensively antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii strain in three military treatment facilities was identified. Fifty-nine isolates recovered from 30 patients over a 4-year period were found among a large collection of isolates using core genome multilocus se...

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Main Authors: Ting L. Luo, Christopher J. Harmer, Francois Lebreton, Jason Stam, Jason W. Bennett, Ruth M. Hall, Patrick T. Mc Gann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023-06-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
Subjects:
Acinetobacter baumannii
GC1 lineage 1
outbreak identification
core genome MLST
epidemiology
microbial genomics
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.00462-23

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