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SUBMITTER: Chen LK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5524697 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20170724 1
Antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii is associated with nosocomial infections worldwide. Here, we used clinically isolated A. baumannii strains as models to demonstrate whether antibiotic resistance is correlated with an increased susceptibility to bacteriophages. In this study, 24 active phages capable of infecting A. baumannii were isolated from various environments, and the susceptibilities of both antibiotic-sensitive and antibiotic-resistant strains of A. baumannii to different phag ...[more]