Polyclonal spread of blaOXA-23 and blaOXA-58 in Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from Argentina

• Hoofdauteur: Andrea Karina Merkier,1 Mariana Catalano,1 María Soledad Ramírez,1 Cecilia Quiroga,1 Betina Orman,1 Laura Ratier,1 Angela Famiglietti,2 Carlos Vay,2 Ana Di Martino,3 Sara Kaufman,4 Daniela Centrón.1 (Auteur)
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• Gepubliceerd in: The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: In order to study the enzymatic carbapenem resistance mechanisms in Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from Argentina, we performed molecular characterization on 41 epidemiologically unrelated strains isolated from 1995 to 2006 with diminished susceptibilities to imipenem and meropenem.Met...