Molecular epidemiology of multidrug-resistant acinetobacter baumannii in a tertiary care hospital in Naples, Italy, shows the emergence of a novel epidemic clone

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1223-1230

  Giannouli, Maria ^a   Cuccurullo, Susanna ^b   Crivaro, Valeria ^b   Di Popolo, Anna ^a   Bernardo, Mariano ^b   Tomasone, Federica ^a   Amato, Gerardino ^c   Brisse, Sylvain ^d   Triassi, Maria ^a   Utili, Riccardo ^b,e   Zarrilli, Raffaele ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Azienda Ospedaliera V Cardarelli   (Italy)

^c CARDARELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^e SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^f CEINGE BIOTECNOLOGIE AVANZATE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARBAPENEM; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RIFAMPICIN; SULTAMICILLIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CARBAPENEM HYDROLYZING OXACILLINASE GENE; CLONE; DNA FLANKING REGION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRILOCUS SEQUENCE BASED TYPING; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BETA-LACTAMASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; ITALY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII;

EID: 77950471423     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02263-09     Document Type: Article

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