Long-term predominance of two pan-European clones among multi-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii strains in the Czech Republic

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 147-153

  Nemec, Alexandr ^a   Dijkshoorn, Lenie ^b   Van Der Reijden, Tanny J K ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; NETILMICIN; OFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CZECH REPUBLIC; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RIBOTYPING;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CZECH REPUBLIC; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EUROPE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RIBOTYPING;

EID: 1242351682     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.05445-0     Document Type: Article

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