AbaR4 replaces AbaR3 in a carbapenem-resistant acinetobacter baumannii isolate belonging to global clone 1 from an australian hospital

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2484-2491

  Hamidian, Mohammad ^a   Hall, Ruth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

PRAY; Targeted transposition; Tn6022 transposon family

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOINFORMATICS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC ISLAND; HOSPITAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPOSON;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 80054703900     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkr356     Document Type: Article

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