ABSTRACT Representatives (n= 31) of outbreak strains of Acinetobacter baumannii from
five countries fell into three clear groups, designated Groups 1–3, based on their ompA …

Thirty-one Acinetobacter baumannii strains, comprising 14 strains from 14 outbreaks in
different northwestern European cities and 17 sporadic strains, were compared by …

To compare the two Acinetobacter baumannii multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) schemes
and to assess their suitability to aid in outbreak analysis we investigated the molecular …

The aim of the study was to investigate the genetic diversity of Acinetobacter baumannii
clinical strains that had previously been allocated to three major groups based on …

Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the major pathogens involved in nosocomial outbreaks.
The clonal diversity of 729 epidemic strains isolated from 19 Spanish hospitals (mainly from …

A set of 103 epidemiologically well-defined Acinetobacter baumannii isolates obtained from
nine hospital outbreaks and 21 unrelated strains were characterized by pulsed-field gel …

In this study a multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme for Acinetobacter baumannii was
developed and evaluated by using 40 clinical A. baumannii isolates recovered from …

Members of the genus Acinetobacter are ubiquitous in soil and water and are an important
cause of nosocomial infections. A rapid method is needed to genotype Acinetobacter …

Background Acinetobacter baumannii is responsible for large epidemics in hospitals, where
it can persist for long time on abiotic surfaces. This study investigated some virulence …

This study used a diverse collection of epidemiologically unrelated Acinetobacter baumannii
isolates to compare the robustness of a multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme, based …