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Drug Resistance
New research on drug resistance from L.Y. Huang and co-authors summarized
January 13th, 2009
"In this study, 283 multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MDR-AB) bloodstream isolates were collected between 1996 and 2004, from three teaching hospitals located in different regions of Taiwan. Susceptibility data showed that strains carrying class 1 integrons were significantly more resistant (p < 0.01) to all tested antibiotics (except aztreonam and chloramphenicol) than strains lacking integrons, Seven types of gene cassette were identified among these strains, including two that have not been previously reported," investigators in Taipei, Taiwan report. "The vast majority of the cassettes encoded aminoglycoside resistance genes, including aacA4, aacC1,...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-01-13)
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