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: de Souza Gusatti, Carolina, Bertholdo, Lauren Martins, Otton, Letícia Muner, Marchetti, Desirée Padilha, Ferreira, Alessandra Einsfeld, Corção, Gertrudes
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3768973/