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SUBMITTER: Jeon BC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1153754 | biostudies-literature | 2005 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jeon Byung-Chan BC Jeong Seok Hoon SH Bae Il Kwon IK Kwon Su Bong SB Lee Kyungwon K Young Dongeun D Lee Jung Hun JH Song Jae Seok JS Lee Sang Hee SH
Journal of clinical microbiology 20050501 5
We investigated an outbreak of Acinetobacter baumannii in an intensive care unit and in the surgery, medicine, neurology, and urology wards of the Kosin University Gospel Hospital in Busan, Korea. The outbreak involved 36 cases of infection by A. baumannii producing the OXA-23 beta-lactamase over an 8-month period and was caused by a single pulsed-field gel electrophoresis clone. The epidemic isolates were characterized by a modified cloverleaf synergy test. Isoelectric focusing of crude bacteri ...[more]