First occurrence of blaOXA-58 in Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from a clinical sample in Southern Brazil

This is the first report of an Acinetobacter baumannii from clinical origin carrying the blaOXA-58 gene in Brazil. The isolate included in this study was from a patient during an outbreak in Porto Alegre, RS, Southern Brazil, in 2007. It was resistant to most of the beta-lactams tested, it has also...

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Main Authors: Carolina de Souza Gusatti, Lauren Martins Bertholdo, Letícia Muner Otton, Desirée Padilha Marchetti, Alessandra Einsfeld Ferreira, Gertrudes Corção
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia 2012-03-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822012000100027