Molecular typing of Acinetobacter baumannii from ten different intensive care units of a university hospital.
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.
Presterl
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Department of Clinical Microbiology, University of Vienna, Austria.
Nadrchal
R
R
Winkler
S
S
Makristathis
A
A
Koller
W
W
Rotter
M L
ML
Hirschl
A M
AM
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
D004269:DNA, Bacterial