Dissemination of Acinetobacter nosocomialis clone among critically ill patients and the environment

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2707-2709

  De Carvalho Girão, Valéria Brígido ^a   Martins, Natacha ^a   Cacci, Luciana Camila ^a   Coelho Souza, Talita ^b   Nouér, Simone Aranha ^a   Riley, Lee W ^c   Moreira, Beatriz Meurer ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER NOSOCOMIALIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAZIL; CLONAL SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISK DIFFUSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; BRAZIL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84880605548     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00915-13     Document Type: Article

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