Variations of AbaR4-type resistance islands in Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from South Korea

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4544-4547

  Kim, Dae Hun ^a   Park, Young Kyoung ^a   Ko, Kwan Soo ^a,b  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Asia Pacific Foundation for Infectious Diseases (APFID)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM;

ABAR4 GENE; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH KOREA; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA;

EID: 84864387140     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00880-12     Document Type: Article

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