Identification of a novel Acinetobacter baumannii clone in a US hospital outbreak by multilocus polymerase chain reaction/electrospray-ionization mass spectrometry

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 14-19

  Schuetz, Audrey N ^a   Huard, Richard C ^b   Eshoo, Mark W ^c   Massire, Christian ^c   Della Latta, Phyllis ^b   Wu, Fann ^b   Jenkins, Stephen G ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^c ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter baumannii; PCR ESI MS; PFGE; Rep PCR; RpoB sequencing

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZTREONAM; CEFEPIME; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; POLYMYXIN B; SULTAMICILLIN; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BROAD RANGE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; BURN UNIT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCE BASED POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RPOB GENE; SCHOOL CHILD; UNITED STATES;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83055186687     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2011.09.012     Document Type: Article

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