Molecular epidemiology characterization of OXA-23 carbapenemase-producing Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from 8 Brazilian hospitals using repetitive sequence-based PCR

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 337-340

  Cieslinski, Juliette M ^a   Arend, Lavinia ^b   Tuon, Felipe F ^c   Silva, Ethianne P ^a   Ekermann, Rafael G S ^a   Dalla Costa, Libera Maria ^c,d   Higgins, Paul G ^e   Seifert, Harald ^e   Pilonetto, Marcelo ^a,b  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b Bacteriology Section   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA PELÉ PEQUENO PRÍNCIPE   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter baumannii; Automated repetitive sequence based PCR; DiversiLab; Molecular epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE CLUSTER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; OXA 23 CARBAPENEMASE PRODUCING ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; OXA 23 GENE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPETITIVE EXTRAGENIC PALINDROMIC PCR;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; AUTOMATED REPETITIVE-SEQUENCE-BASED PCR; DIVERSILAB; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; BETA-LACTAMASES; BRAZIL; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84887612758     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.07.018     Document Type: Article

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