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SUBMITTER: Vilacoba E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3889758 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of clinical microbiology 20130828 11
Acinetobacter baumannii pigmented strains are not common in clinical settings. Here, we report an outbreak caused by indigo-pigmented A. baumannii strains isolated in an acute care hospital in Argentina from March to September 2012. Pan-PCR assays exposed a unique pattern belonging to the recently described regional CC113(B)/CC79(P) clonal complex that confirms the relevant relationships among the indigo-pigmented A. baumannii strains. All of them were extensively drug resistant and harbored dif ...[more]