Characterization of epidemiologically unrelated Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from four continents by use of multilocus sequence typing, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, and sequence-based typing of blaOXA-51-like genes

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2476-2483

  Hamouda, Ahmed ^a   Evans, Benjamin A ^a   Towner, Kevin J ^b   Amyes, Sebastian G B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLA OXA 51 LIKE GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE BASED TYPING; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77954446593     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02431-09     Document Type: Article

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