Acintobacter Baumannii
A. baumannii outbreak caused by bla(OXA-21) determinant
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 31st, 2005
"We investigated an outbreak of Acinetobacter baumannii in an intensive care unit and in the surgery, medicine, neurology, and urology wards of the Kosin University Gospel Hospital in Busan, Korea.
"The outbreak involved 36 cases of infection by A. baumannii producing the OXA-23 P-lactamase over an 8-month period and was caused by a single pulsed-field gel electrophoresis clone," scientists in South Korea report.
"The epidemic isolates were characterized by a modified cloverleaf synergy test. Isoelectric focusing of crude bacterial...
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