Chen Liang-Yu, Shu-Chen Kuo, Chun-Yu Liu, Bin-Syun Luo, Ling-Ju Huang, Yi-Tzu Lee, Chien-Pei Chen, Te-Li Chen, Chang-Phone Fung
BACKGROUND: To determine whether the susceptibilities and the trends of nonsusceptibility of imipenem, meropenem, sulbactam, and colistin differed among Acinetobacter baumannii, Acinetobacter genomic species 3 (AGS 3), and Acinetobacter genomic species 13TU (AGS 13TU) over 11 years. METHODS: A total of 1,039 nonduplicate blood isolates of A baumannii complex from bacteremic patients between 1997 and 2007 were collected at Taipei Veterans General Hospital and were identified to the species level using a multiplex polymerase chain reaction method and sequence analysis of 16S-23S intergenic spacer...
October 2011: Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection