Since the 1970s, the spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter strains among
critically ill, hospitalized patients, and subsequent epidemics, have become an increasing …

In the past decade, various methods have been developed for the identification and typing of
prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms at the DNA level. These methods differ in their …

Different aspects of the terms strain, clone and species are discussed. The term strain is
commonly used to denote a pure culture–here called 'the strain in the taxonomic sense'–but …

Outbreaks of hospital infections caused by multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
strains are of increasing concern worldwide. Although it has been reported that particular …

For bacterial typing to be useful, the development, validation and appropriate application of
typing methods must follow unified criteria. Over a decade ago, ESGEM, the ESCMID …

Thirty-one Acinetobacter baumannii strains, comprising 14 strains from 14 outbreaks in
different northwestern European cities and 17 sporadic strains, were compared by …

Acinetobacter genomic species (gen. sp.) 3 and gen. sp. 13TU are increasingly recognized
as clinically important taxa within the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-Acinetobacter baumannii …

ABSTRACT A standard procedure for pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of
macrorestriction fragments of Acinetobacter baumannii was set up and validated for its …

At least 19 genomic species are recognized as constituting the genus Acinetobacter.
However, little is known about the natural reservoirs of the various members of the genus …

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the diversity of the genes encoding
aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes and their association with class 1 integrons in three pan …