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Comparative Study
. 2006 Jul;44(7):2630-4.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00547-06.

Comparison of Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from the United Kingdom and the United States that were associated with repatriated casualties of the Iraq conflict

Jane F Turton  1 , Mary E Kaufmann, Martin J Gill, Rachel Pike, Paul T Scott, Joel Fishbain, David Craft, Gregory Deye, Scott Riddell, Luther E Lindler, Tyrone L Pitt
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Comparative Study

Comparison of Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from the United Kingdom and the United States that were associated with repatriated casualties of the Iraq conflict

Jane F Turton et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2006 Jul.

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.

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Dendrogram of PFGE profiles of ApaI-digested genomic DNA from isolates. United Kingdom isolates (UK 1 to UK 25) were from hospitals H1 to H7. Isolates from the United States (US 1 to US 15) were from an Acinetobacter outbreak investigation archive at WRAMC.
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