Circulation of imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii ST10, ST2 and ST3 in a university teaching hospital from Tehran, Iran.

CONCLUSION: The high prevalence of MDR strains and the circulation of four limited clones, including ST10 (45/99), ST2 (41/99), ST3 (12/99) and ST513 (1/99), in the clinical setting highlights the importance of a rigorous infection control programme. The two-locus typing method has more discrimination than the application of each method separately and it could be applied for the rapid determination of the CC without performing MLST. PMID: 31050632 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Medical Microbiology - Category: Microbiology Authors: Tags: J Med Microbiol Source Type: research