Clonal diversity of nosocomial epidemic Acinetobacter baumannii strains isolated in Spain

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 875-882

  Villalón, Pilar ^a   Valdezate, Sylvia ^a   Medina Pascual, Maria J ^a   Rubio, Virginia ^a   Vindel, Ana ^a   Saez Nieto, Juan A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; COLISTIN; DOXYCYCLINE; MINOCYCLINE; SULBACTAM; TIGECYCLINE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPN60 26 GENE; EPIDEMIC; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOSPITAL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RECA29 GENE; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT GENE; SPAIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII;

EID: 79952329426     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01026-10     Document Type: Article

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