Emergence of Acinetobacter baumannii international clone II in Brazil: Reflection of a global expansion

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue , 2013, Pages 378-380

  Martins, Natacha ^a   Dalla Costa, Libera ^b   Uehara, Aline Almeida ^a   Riley, Lee Woodland ^c   Moreira, Beatriz Meurer ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter baumannii; International clone; Molecular epidemiology; Multilocus sequence typing; Trilocus PCR based typing

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INTERNATIONAL CLONE II; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; INTERNATIONAL CLONE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; TRILOCUS PCR-BASED TYPING;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BRAZIL; CARBAPENEMS; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING;

EID: 84886307606     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2013.09.028     Document Type: Article

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