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SUBMITTER: Mosqueda N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3811394 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mosqueda Noraida N Espinal Paula P Cosgaya Clara C Viota Sergio S Plasensia Virginia V Alvarez-Lerma Francisco F Montero Milagro M Gómez Julià J Horcajada Juan Pablo JP Vila Jordi J Roca Ignasi I
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20130722 10
Resistance of Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates to carbapenems is on the rise worldwide mainly in association with the production of OXA-23. Until recently, however, OXA-23 was absent in Spain. In this work, we report the molecular characterization of a hospital outbreak of OXA-23-producing A. baumannii in Barcelona caused by a multidrug-resistant (MDR) clone belonging to international clone IC-II/sequence type ST85 between October 2010 and May 2011. blaOXA-23 was carried in a plasmid of ...[more]