Current molecular methods in epidemiological typing of Acinetobacter baumannii

R Rafei, M Kempf, M Eveillard, F Dabboussi… - Future …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The emergence of Acinetobacter baumannii during recent decades as an important
nosocomial pathogen responsible of worldwide, intensively documented, outbreaks has …

Comparison of molecular typing methods for the analyses of Acinetobacter baumannii from ICU patients

JK Johnson, GL Robinson, LC Zhao, AD Harris… - … and infectious disease, 2016 - Elsevier
Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as an important cause of healthcare-associated
infections causing great morbidity and mortality. Despite its clinical importance, it is still …

Comparison of four different methods for epidemiologic typing of Acinetobacter baumannii

H Seifert, A Schulze, R Baginski… - Journal of clinical …, 1994 - Am Soc Microbiol
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 …

Development of a Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme for Characterization of Clinical Isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii

SG Bartual, H Seifert, C Hippler… - Journal of clinical …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
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 …

Genotyping of Acinetobacter baumannii strains isolated at a Japanese hospital over five years using targeted next-generation sequencing

MM Alshahni, M Asahara, S Kawakami… - Journal of Infection and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Acinetobacter baumannii is a Gram-negative bacterial agent involved in nosocomial
infections. In this five-year retrospective study, phylogenetic relationships among …

Genotyping methods for monitoring the epidemic evolution of A. baumannii strains

SS Ahmed, E Alp - The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2015 - jidc.org
Acinetobacter baumannii is clustered with other phenotypically similar species into what has
commonly become known as the ACB complex: A. calcoaceticus, A. pittii and, A …

Update on the Epidemiological Typing Methods for Acinetobacter Baumannii

R Rafei, M Osman, F Dabboussi, M Hamze - Future Microbiology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The outstanding ability of Acinetobacter baumannii to cause outbreaks and acquire
multidrug resistance motivated the development of a plethora of typing techniques, which …

Characterization of Epidemiologically Unrelated Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates from Four Continents by Use of Multilocus Sequence Typing, Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis, and …

A Hamouda, BA Evans, KJ Towner… - Journal of clinical …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
This study used a diverse collection of epidemiologically unrelated Acinetobacter baumannii
isolates to compare the robustness of a multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme, based …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular epidemiology of clinical Acinetobacter baumannii and Acinetobacter genomic species 13TU isolates using a multilocus sequencing typing scheme

H Wisplinghoff, C Hippler, SG Bartual, C Haefs… - Clinical microbiology …, 2008 - Elsevier
To further expand the limited multilocus sequence typing (MLST) database for Acinetobacter
baumannii, 53 clinical isolates from various outbreaks in Europe and the USA, collected …

Deciphering the Multifactorial Nature of Acinetobacter baumannii Pathogenicity

LCS Antunes, F Imperi, A Carattoli, P Visca - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Acinetobacter baumannii is an emerging bacterial pathogen that causes a
broad array of infections, particularly in hospitalized patients. Many studies have focused on …