Incidence of acinetobacter species other than a. baumannii among clinical isolates of acinetobacter: Evidence for emerging species

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1445-1449

  Turton, Jane F ^a   Shah, Jayesh ^a   Ozongwu, Chika ^a   Pike, Rachel ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER LWOFFII; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER JOHNSONII; ACINETOBACTER URSINGII;

EID: 77950474931     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02467-09     Document Type: Article

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