Antibiotic resistance islands in A320 (RUH134), the reference strain for Acinetobacter baumannii global clone 2

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 335-338

  Nigro, Steven J ^a   Hall, Ruth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Multiply antibiotic resistant A. baumannii; Resistance genes; Transposons

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DNA; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NEOMYCIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOMIC ISLAND; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPOSON;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84855841645     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkr447     Document Type: Article

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