Molecular analysis of imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from US service members wounded in Iraq, 2003-2008

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2302-2307

  Huang, X Z ^a   Chahine, M A ^a   Frye, J G ^b   Cash, D M ^a   Lesho, E P ^a   Craft, D W ^a   Lindler, L E ^c   Nikolich, M P ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c US Department of Homeland Security   (United States)

Author keywords

A. baumannii; imipenem resistance; OXA 23

Indexed keywords

IMIPENEM;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHROMOSOME; GENE CLUSTER; HUMAN; IRAQ; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVIEW; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES; WOUND;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GERMANY; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; IRAQ WAR, 2003 - 2011; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84869407392     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811002871     Document Type: Review

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