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Clonal spread of bla OXA-72 -carrying Acinetobacter baumannii sequence type 512 in Taiwan

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, ISSN: 0924-8579, Vol: 48, Issue: 1, Page: 111-113
2016
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This is the first report to show an insidious outbreak of armA - and bla OXA-72 -carrying Acinetobacter baumannii sequence type 512 (ST512) at a study hospital in northern Taiwan. Multilocus sequence typing revealed that this was a ST512 clone. All of the isolates with ST512 carried a novel 12,056-bp rep GR2 in combination with a rep GR12-type plasmid. This plasmid, designated pAB-ML, had one copy of the bla OXA-72 gene that was flanked by XerC/XerD-like sites and conferred resistance to carbapenems.

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