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Molecular epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii strains isolated at the German military field laboratory in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan
The study was performed to provide an overview on the molecular epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter (A.) baumannii in Afghanistan isolated by the German military medical service during the Afghanistan conflict. A total of 18 isolates had been collected between 2012 and 2018 at the microbiological laboratory of the field hospital in Camp Marmal near Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan, from Afghan patients. The isolates were subjected to phenotypic and genotypic differentiation and antimicrobial susceptibility testing as well as to a core genome multi locus sequence typing (cgMLST) approach based on whole genome next generation sequence (wgNGS) data
The study was performed to provide an overview on the molecular epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter (A.) baumannii in Afghanistan isolated by the German military medical service during the Afghanistan conflict. A total of 18 isolates had been collected between 2012 and 2018 at the microbiological laboratory of the field hospital in Camp Marmal near Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan, from Afghan patients. The isolates were subjected to phenotypic and genotypic differentiation and antimicrobial susceptibility testing as well as to a core genome multi locus sequence typing (cgMLST) approach based on whole genome next generation sequence (wgNGS) data