Open AccessDiversity of carbapenem resistance mechanisms in Acinetobacter baumannii from a Taiwan hospital: spread of plasmid-borne OXA-72 carbapenemase
Author(s) -
PoLiang Lu,
Michel Doumith,
D. M. Livermore,
TsungChi Chen,
Neil Woodford
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124
H-Index - 194
eISSN - 1460-2091
pISSN - 0305-7453
DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkn553
Subject(s) - pulsed field gel electrophoresis , acinetobacter baumannii , biology , gene , plasmid , microbiology and biotechnology , carbapenem , insertion sequence , genetics , transposable element , bacteria , genotype , genome , antibiotics , pseudomonas aeruginosa
We investigated the molecular epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii from a Taiwanese hospital and determined the mechanisms responsible for resistance.
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