The population structure of Acinetobacter baumannii: Expanding multiresistant clones from an ancestral susceptible genetic pool

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Diancourt, Laure ^a   Passet, Virginie ^a   Nemec, Alexandr ^b   Dijkshoorn, Lenie ^c   Brisse, Sylvain ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFTAZIDIME; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; OFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE POOL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CELL CLONE; CROSS INFECTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BIODIVERSITY; CLONE CELLS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77955627513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010034     Document Type: Article

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