Publications

characteristics of epidemic and sporadic strains of acinetobacter baumannii isolated in abu dhabi hospitals.	we compared the antibiotic susceptibility, clonal lineages and resistance genes of singleton acinetobacter baumannii strains to those of isolates representing repeatedly encountered molecular types in five abu dhabi hospitals. one hundred and ten clinically relevant, non-repeat strains were typed by blaoxa-51-like allele sequencing and by pfge, and selected isolates also by mlst. resistance was assessed by mic determinations and by disc diffusion. genotyping was carried out by pcr, targeting 28 ...	2012	23264451
NDM-2 carbapenemase-producing Acinetobacter baumannii in the United Arab Emirates.	Clin Microbiol Infect ABSTRACT: Screening 155 carbapenem non-susceptible Acinetobacter baumannii strains recovered in Abu Dhabi hospitals identified two metallo-ß-lactamase bla(NDM) gene-carrying isolates. They were isolated 4 months apart from the urine of a cancer patient previously treated in Egypt, Lebanon and in the United Arab Emirates. They were clonally related and carried the bla(NDM-2) gene recently identified in A. baumannii in Egypt and Israel. Sequences surrounding the bla(NDM-2) ...	2011	22192275