Acinetobacter Species
Genetic Characterization of Plasmid-Borne blaOXA-58 in Distinct Acinetobacter Species
... OXA-58-producing Acinetobacter species strains, harbor- ing the strA and strB genes and the sul2 gene, which confer resistance to streptomy- cin and sulfonamides, ...
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Identification of Acinetobacter Species and Genotyping of Acinetobacter baumannii by Multilocus PCR and Mass Spectrometry
... study, Acinetobacter baylyi ATCC 33405, was represented by its genomic sequence; this strain was formerly known as Acinetobacter ...characterize Acinetobacter genomospecies 13TU isolates (se- quence ...
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The success of acinetobacter species; genetic, metabolic and virulence attributes
... certain Acinetobacter species are more successful in causing nosocomial infections, transmission and epidemic spread in healthcare institutions compared with other species is ...between ...
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Prevalence and Resistance Pattern of Acinetobacter Species in a Tertiary Care hospital in Kanyakumari District
... of Acinetobacter species to several β-lactam antibiotics has caused an increase in its resistance ...36 Acinetobacter baumannii strains resistant to all known antibiotics have now been reported, ...
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Study of Acinetobacter Species with special reference to Drug Resistance
... Acinetobaceracter species mainly Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as an important and problematic human pathogen as it is the causative agent of several types of infections including pneumonia, ...
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Study of Acinetobacter Species as a Nosocomial Pathogen by Plasmid Profile Typing.
... This was tested after growing the bacterium for five days at 370C in a broth containing 1% KNO3. The presence of nitrites in the test medium was detected by the addition of α- naphthylamine and sulfanilic acid, with the ...
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Characteristics of invasive Acinetobacter species isolates recovered in a pediatric academic center
... invasive Acinetobacter infections associated with large pediatric, academic institutes in developed countries are still poorly defined due to un- clear risk ...the Acinetobacter rpoB gene, have allowed us ...
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Sequencing of the rpoB Gene and Flanking Spacers for Molecular Identification of Acinetobacter Species
... Acinetobacter species are defined on the basis of several phenotypic characters, results of DNA-DNA homol- ogy, and more recently, similarities or dissimilarities in 16S rRNA gene ...of species ...
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Endemic and Epidemic Acinetobacter Species in a University Hospital: an 8 Year Survey
... other species were involved: Acinetobacter ...former species was involved in nine clus- ters, among which the largest clusters occurred, and Acineto- bacter ...other species have been reported ...
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Multivariate Analysis of Acinetobacter Species in a Tertiary Care Hospital
... Acinetobacter species are often resistant to a wide range of antimicrobial agents including carbapenems due to both intrinsic and acquired mechanisms as well as their complex ...
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Distribution of Acinetobacter species on human skin: comparison of phenotypic and genotypic identification methods
... certain Acinetobacter species, in particular, ...nii, Acinetobacter DNA group 3, and probably ...latter species was found only in hospitalized pa- ...these species in par- ticular have ...
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Incidence of Acinetobacter Species Other than A baumannii among Clinical Isolates of Acinetobacter: Evidence for Emerging Species
... the species found among 690 isolates of Acinetobacter, each from a different patient, submitted over a 20-month period during 2008/2009, from some 135 ...the Acinetobacter species among ...
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Low Efficiency of the Commonly Prescribed Drugs against Klebsiella pneumonia, Escherichia coli and Acinetobacter Species as the Causative Agents of Blood Stream Infection in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
... and Acinetobacter species isolates in our study revealed a generally higher resistance rate than reported in African studies [1] [16] ...and Acinetobacter isolates with their rate of resistance ...
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Acinetobacter Species Associated with Spontaneous Preterm Birth and Histological Chorioamnionitis
... reveal species that warrant further investigations to elucidate their clinically relevant traits such as virulence mechanisms, evasion of the host immune system, and antimicrobial ...
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Antimicrobial Resistance among Acinetobacter species and Evaluation of Risk Factors
... of Acinetobacter isolates 93 ...of Acinetobacter in nature and its ability to colonize healthy or damaged ...MDR Acinetobacter isolation in surgical patients mentioned by Dent et ...
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Identification of Acinetobacter species
... Siderophore utilization bioassays showed the presence of 2,3-dihydroxybenzoic acid in the growth medium, and neither enterobactin nor aerobactin was detected in culture supernatants obta[r] ...
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Acinetobacter species identification by using tRNA spacer fingerprinting
... the species or genus level and would thus be a measure for genetic relatedness at this level of classifica- ...128 Acinetobacter strains belonging to all 21 previously described DNA groups produced 17 ...
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Plasmid DNA fingerprinting of Acinetobacter species other than Acinetobacter baumannii
... Lanes: 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6, blood culture and central venous catheter isolates, respectively, from patients A to C; 7 and 8, blood culture and cerebrospinal fluid isolates from pat[r] ...
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Reliability of phenotypic tests for identification of Acinetobacter species
... In the present study, 198 Acinetobacter strains belonging to 14 different DNA groups, mainly from clinical sources, were investigated by using the simplified identification scheme of Bou[r] ...
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... years, Acinetobacter species have emerged as opportunistic and important nosocomial pathogens that are associated with hospital acquired infections ...important species is responsible for a ...
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