title: Molecular typing of Acinetobacter baumannii from ten different intensive care units of a university hospital.
abstract: Thirty-one isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii were collected from ten intensive care units of an Austrian university hospital. All isolates were typed by enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus polymerase chain reaction (ERIC-PCR). Two strains colonizing 13 infants in the neonatal intensive care unit were identified by ERIC-PCR. All other Acinetobacter baumannii isolates had highly divergent ERIC-PCR patterns, despite having the same antibiogram. Thus, a hospital-wide clonal distribution, as suggested by identical antibiogram patterns, was excluded by ERIC-PCR.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Microbiology, University of Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Presterl
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nadrchal
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Winkler
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Makristathis
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Koller
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Rotter
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Hirschl
mesh_terms: D000150:Acinetobacter / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D000151:Acinetobacter Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D001317:Austria / Q000453:epidemiology; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000382:microbiology; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis* / Q000235:genetics; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D008875:Middle Aged; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial