A 63 kb genomic resistance island found in a multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolate of European clone I from 1977

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1915-1918

  Krizova, Lenka ^a   Nemec, Alexandr ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

AbaR3; International clonal lineages; Multilocus sequence typing; PCR mapping

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER HK302; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

EID: 77955639987     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkq223     Document Type: Article

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