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SUBMITTER: Ploy MC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC90135 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20001001 10
Twenty Acinetobacter baumannii strains resistant to various antibiotics were analyzed for integron content and sequences of the amplification products. Sixteen clinical isolates had a class 1 integron, 2 contained an additional class 1 or class 2 integron, but no class 3 integron was detected. Thirteen strains had integrons with a single cassette: aac(3)-Ia (9 strains), ant(2")-Ia (2 strains), or aac(6')-Ib (2 strains); 1 had aac(6')-Ib and oxa20 cassettes and an unknown gene; and 1 had an integ ...[more]