Comparison of Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates from the United Kingdom and the United States That Were Associated with Repatriated Casualties of the Iraq Conflict
Open Access
- 1 July 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 44 (7), 2630-2634
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.00547-06
Abstract
Acinetobacter isolates associated with casualties from the Iraq conflict from the United States were compared with those from the United Kingdom by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and integron analysis. Representatives of the main outbreak strain associated with casualties from both countries were indistinguishable in DNA profile. Two further outbreak strains were common to both sets of isolates.Keywords
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