Molecular epidemiological investigation of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii strains in four Mediterranean countries with a multilocus sequence typing scheme

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 197-201

  Di Popolo, A ^a   Giannouli, M ^a   Triassi, M ^a   Brisse, S ^b   Zarrilli, R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c CEINGE BIOTECNOLOGIE AVANZATE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter baumannii; Carbapenemases; Molecular epidemiology; Multilocus sequence typing; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; IMIPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ARTICLE; GREECE; HUMAN; ITALY; LEBANON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURKEY (BIRD); VIRUS STRAIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII;

EID: 78751667419     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03254.x     Document Type: Article

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