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SUBMITTER: Tada T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4608321 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
BMC infectious diseases 20151015
<h4>Background</h4>Acinetobacter baumannii strains co-producing carbapenemase and 16S rRNA methylase are highly resistant to carbapenems and aminoglycosides.<h4>Methods</h4>Ninety-three isolates of multidrug-resistant A. baumannii were obtained from an intensive care unit in a hospital in Vietnam. Antimicrobial susceptibility tests and whole genome sequencing were performed. Multilocus sequence typing and the presence of drug resistant genes were determined and a maximum-likelihood phylogenetic ...[more]