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Genetic diversity and clonal relationships of Acinetobacter baumannii strains isolated in a neonatal ward: epidemiological investigations by allozyme, whole-cell protein and antibiotic resistance analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

V. Thurm  and
E. Ritter
V. Thurm*
Affiliation:
Bundesgesundheitsamt, Robert von Ostertag-Institut, Bereich Wernigerode
E. Ritter
Affiliation:
Institut für Hygiene und Laboratoriumsmedizin, Städt. Krankenanstalten Krefeld, Germany
*
*Dr V. Thurm, Bundesgesundheitsamt, Robert von Ostertag-Institut. Bereich Wernigerode, Burgstr. 37, D-38855 Wernigerode, Germany.
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Sixty-five strains of Acinetobacter baumannii which had been isolated from patients and the indoor environment of a neonatal intensive care unit and, for comparative purposes, isolates from three other wards, were examined by means of electrotyping and analysis of whole-cell protein and antibiotic resistance patterns. Fourteen different electrotypes were determined. The predominant type, a multiply resistant acinetobacter clone, persisted in the neonatal ward over several months. The results underline the usefulness of electrophoretic subtyping, in particular by means of allozyme pattern and as a supplement to whole-cell protein pattern analysis, in epidemiological investigations into the routes of transmission of nosocomial A. baumannii infections.

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Research Article
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Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 111 , Issue 3 , December 1993 , pp. 491 - 498
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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