title: Comparison of Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from United Kingdom hospitals with predominant Northern European genotypes by amplified-fragment length polymorphism analysis.
abstract: Acinetobacter baumannii isolates collected between 1999 and 2001 from 46 United Kingdom hospitals were compared with previously identified northern European genotypes by amplified-fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis. Two predominant northern European genotypes associated with outbreaks in the mid-1980s had been superseded by new outbreak-associated genotypes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Richard P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Spence
authors.forename: Tanny J K
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: van der Reijden
authors.forename: Lenie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dijkshoorn
authors.forename: Kevin J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Towner
mesh_terms: D000151:Acinetobacter Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D040981:Acinetobacter baumannii / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D001483:Base Sequence; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology; D017931:DNA Primers; D005060:Europe; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D006113:United Kingdom
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers