Acinetobacter soli as a cause of bloodstream infection in a neonatal intensive care unit

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2283-2285

  Pellegrino, Flávia Lúcia Piffano Costa ^a   Vieira, Verônica V ^b   Baio, Paulo Victor Pereira ^b   Dos Santos, Rosana Maria R ^c   Dos Santos, Ana Lucia Alves ^c   Santos, Nadir Gomes De Barros ^c   Meohas, Martha Maria Gaudie Ley ^c   Santos, Rodrigo Teixeira ^a   De Souza, Talita Coelho ^a   Dias, Rubens Clayton Da Silva ^d   Santoro Lopes, Guilherme ^a   Riley, Lee W ^e   Moreira, Beatriz Meurer ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c Secretaria de Estado da Saude de Sao Paulo   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CATALASE; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RNA 16S; SULTAMICILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER SOLI; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DISK DIFFUSION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA FLANKING REGION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GYRB GENE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RNA SEQUENCE; RPOB GENE; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACINETOBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79957481346     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00326-11     Document Type: Article

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