CGPH FACULTY: Lee Riley
DATE OF PUBLICATION: December 2013
REGION: South America
REFERENCE: Martins N, Dalla-Costa L, Uehara AA, Riley LW, Moreira BM. Emergence of Acinetobacter baumannii international clone II in Brazil: reflection of a global expansion. Infect Genet Evol. 2013 Dec;20:378-80. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2013.09.028. Epub 2013 Oct 10.
SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii international clones (IC) in Curitiba, Brazil, using multilocus sequence typing and trilocus PCR-based typing schemes.
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